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This program started as something for me

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to give back.

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It's one of those things that I've

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always enjoyed volunteering,

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helping,

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and

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this was something that

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I could do.

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I didn't have to depend on anybody else.

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The first year I did it,

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I may have had 100 costumes.

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It was just one bar across the garage,

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so it may not have been that many.

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And then this year,

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We kept count

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and I had 2,157 costumes to give away.

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I acquire costumes from

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sometimes from donors,

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sometimes what I find in stores,

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and then sometimes I will find

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pieces that I will put together and create one of my own.

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I had a lady send me a box

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and

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there was a clown costume in there that she made

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40 years ago.

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So

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you know that she was dedicated to helping.

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There's so many people out there

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that want to help,

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and some of them are just looking for a way to do it.

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And

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I'm really happy that

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I've given some of them an opportunity to do that.