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Halloween is our American celebration that best reveals politics.

Thanksgiving, with succulent turkey, pumpkin pie and kaleidoscopic family collisions, is our sensual political fete. Memorial Day is a red balloon more dependent on intellectual construction than emotional content. The Fourth of July lights political sentiments with children's sparklers and volunteer fire department starbursts in the summer night sky.

None of them beats Halloween for dramatizing the essence of politics. Halloween's slogan says it all: Trick or treat!

Halloween is Transaction City.

A knock on your door whether or not you're home.

Halloween proves that We Are Not Alone.

And dooms us to act accordingly.

Just picture who haunts America's streets come Halloween.

Swayze's Widow Speaks: 'I Would Love to See You,' Patrick

Speaking out for the first time on television since the death of her husband Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, the 'Dirty Dancing' star's wife of 34 years is opening up to Oprah Winfrey about her loss.

Niemi, who married Swayze while both were still in their 20s, says that when Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, "it was mind numbing." She goes on to tell Winfrey that "you think you're going to get these terrific illuminations," she says (via PEOPLE), but that didn't happen. "I looked around and I said, 'This is awful.' "

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