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Ten-year-old David thought he was old enough to go out for Halloween, but his father thought otherwise.
Born into a family of six boys, David was third and admired his older brothers, Arthur and Edgar. They had been given permission to go door-to-door in their small Kansas town that Halloween, and David, having just turned 10, thought that permission was extended to him. It wasnât.
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Infuriated when his parents told him he wasnât old enough to tag along with Arthur and Edgar, David became overwhelmed with rage. He ran into the familyâs backyard and flung himself at an apple tree. He pounded the treeâs knobby trunk until his hands became a mass of bleeding flesh.
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