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    <Title>Halloween Costume Drive</Title>
    <Tagline>Call for new or gently used costumes</Tagline>
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          <div class="html-content"><p><strong>Where did the ghost get their Halloween costume? At a bootique.</strong></p><p>Choice will host a costume pop-up closet--a <em>bootique</em>--for neighbors in Cherry Hill (south Baltimore City) on <u>Saturday October 25, 2-4 p.m.</u> We hope to have 100 costumes to distribute. Do you have any butterfly wings, crowns, super hero get-ups that you would like to donate? I would love to take them off your hands. All sizes welcome.</p><p>I have a box outside of my office in Shriver: Public Policy (PUP) 116. Please feel free to drop them off until <u>Thursday, October 23.</u></p><p>Thanks to the many student organizations who are supporting this effort including <em>Sisterhood</em> who held a bake sale to buy ones! And thanks to Division of Professional Studies/Shriver colleagues who have been generous too. </p><p><em>Why Cherry Hill? It's our mothership! Choice was founded in Cherry Hill in 1988. It's our only residential neighborhood-based office. </em></p><p><br></p><div><br></div></div>
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    <PostedAt>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:45:24 -0400</PostedAt>
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