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Word of the Day: Bewitched
Boy, oh boy, oh boy, we live in scary times.
Or is it just me?
You feel it, too, right?
With Halloween just around the corner, I’m beginning to think that Trumpy has bewitched half of the population and all of the Republican Party in the US.
What the heck is going on over there?
Talk about terrifying!
In most countries, voting takes one day, but the Americans like it so much that it lasts for weeks and weeks.
Is it a coincidence that Halloween comes just before the American election?
I think not.
Trump must be a warlock who has bewitched people.
That’s the only way things can be unravelling the way they are.
When someone is bewitched, they are either very attracted to something or totally controlled by it.
Remember when you first fell in love?
You couldn’t stop thinking about that special someone.
Morning, noon and night, they were in your thoughts no matter what you were doing.
If they called, you ran to the phone.
You just wanted to be with them and would do anything to make them happy.
It was as if there was a spell on you.
Well, that’s what it means to be bewitched.
Seeing as we are coming up on Halloween, I decided to follow my yearly ritual and write about a few Halloween words.
Now, these words are not necessarily only related to scary images, ghosts, zombies and vampires.
Bewitched is one of these words.
When it comes to love, being bewitched is not all that bad.
For some people, it lasts a long time – like 31 years.
Happy anniversary, H. May you have many more!
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