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    Halloween in Moriches
    Halloween in Moriches
    Halloween in Moriches
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    Halloween in Moriches

    By John Gannon

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    My good friend Stacy requested a short story to read to her son's fourth grade class in East Moriches for Halloween. Here it is, a twenty minute story to read to children for Halloween. Enjoy!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Gannon
    Release dateOct 24, 2011
    ISBN9781465728760
    Halloween in Moriches
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    John Gannon

    John Gannon has worked in the Internet and software sectors for the last 16 years in a variety of business development, professional services, technical architecture, and venture investment roles. Recently, John worked at VMTurbo, an early stage virtualization and cloud computing startup software company backed by Highland Capital Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. He joined the company as the first business side hire and led customer development, business development, inside sales and marketing initiatives from alpha through the company's public launch. Prior to joining VMTurbo, John worked as an early stage venture capitalist at L Capital Partners, where he sourced and performed due diligence on potential investments in Internet and software companies and served as a board observer for OnPath Technologies, a physical layer network switch vendor. Earlier in his career, he worked at VMware, Scient, and FOXSports.com in a variety of technical and professional services leadership roles. He is currently employed by a leading cloud computing service provider. John received a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He resides in New York City with his wife, twin daughters, and an American Hairless Terrier.

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      Halloween in Moriches - John Gannon

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      Halloween in Moriches

      This is a true story of a Halloween from before when you children were born. It was the Halloween of 1999—the last Halloween of that century.

      It was October thirtieth, nineteen-ninety-nine, the day before Halloween, and the Moriches Daredevils were meeting at the house of their leader, whose name was Tommy. Tommy insisted that since he was ten and a half years old, and the oldest and biggest of the group, that he should be their leader. No one argued with Tommy. Tommy wasn’t afraid of anything, or so he said. To prove how bold he was, he once stole a whole bag of mini-Snickers bars from the Moriches CVS by tucking it under his shirt. Tommy was a little pudgy, and the clerk didn’t notice the extra bulge under his sweater. Although

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