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\nFor reasons unknown, life-sized plastic skeletons seem to be all the rage in urban Halloween decorating this year. You can’t walk down the streets of South Philadelphia without seeing the disgorged contents of a graveyard in polystyrene.<\/p>\n
\nFor reasons unknown, life-sized plastic skeletons seem to be all the rage in urban Halloween decorating this year. You can’t walk down the streets of South Philadelphia without seeing the disgorged contents of a graveyard in polystyrene.<\/p>\n
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\nThey look impressive and are probably priced right which is why everybody seems to have at least one if not a whole mausoleum’s worth, but I wonder where the hell people store them in a row-house once the season is over.<\/p>\n
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