Someone may have asked his daughter for directions, Walter Arrington believes, and forced her into a car as she walked to a CVS pharmacy near her home Montgomery, Alabama, on the day before Halloween, October 30, 1998.

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Both All Hallows' Eve -- known today as Halloween -- and All Saints' Day, which follows on November 1, were designated as days to pray for dead souls that had not passed out of purgatory, in the belief that the prayers of the living will help.

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We wanted to make a game to create special things for Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter and so on.

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Halloween is a last hurrah of the powers of evil before their routine drubbing on All Hallows' Day.

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