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Elsa and Anna stood around their kitchen table with a large pumpkin in front of each of them. It had been a long time since they had done anything for Allehelgensdag, or Halloween. Not since they had been little girls. Picking up their carving knives, they looked at one another.
“One happy and one scary?” They asked each other in unison and giggled. It was what they had always asked their father to carve for them. Carefully, and with only a bit of trouble, the girls worked on the pumpkins. It was initially difficult to cut out each shape but it soon became easier as they went. When they were finished there was indeed one happy and one scary-faced pumpkin carved and ready for lighting.
Anna brought out white candles and placed them inside each pumpkin. They would light them when it became darker out. Elsa looked to the corner where Olaf was hunched over his own pumpkin.
“Finished!” He exclaimed and excitedly brought his pumpkin over to the girls. On his pumpkin was a scene of Elsa, Anna, and Olaf, surrounded by other pumpkins.
“Amazing!” Elsa and Anna exclaimed in unison. Anna placed a white candle in his pumpkin. They carried them to the front window of the grand castle and lit the candles, smiling at the passersby who stopped to admire them.
“Now can we make up the candy bags?” Anna asked her sister excitedly. Elsa laughed and replied, “Of course!”
She took her sister’s and Olaf’s hands and they all walked to the dining hall, where the smell of delicious candies wafted through the doors.
Elsa and Anna both felt light and happy in their hearts. Here was another old tradition of theirs, revived and made new, and something they could enjoy together as sisters and friends.