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    What your halloween candy says about your personality

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    You are what you give your trick-or-treaters-
    Michelle Obama is a woman of principal, even on Halloween..

    "She's been giving, for the last few years, ... more 
    Photo by: Getty Images/ Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool
    You are what you give your trick-or-treaters-
    Michelle Obama is a woman of principal, even on Halloween..

    "She's been giving, for the last few years, kids fruit and raisins in a bag," the first lady's husband (also known as the president) told the Tonight Show's Jay Leno this past week. Health initiatives aside, there's a time and a place for nature's candy, and most kids will tell you it's not on October 31st in the plastic jack-o-lantern marked 'trick or treat'.

    Barack Obama is also on team candy. Fearing an White House egging, he told his wife: "'You need to throw some candy in there...A couple Reese's Pieces or something.'"

    So the president's a Reese's Pieces guy, ay? Everyone's got a go-to halloween candy, and picking your poison is a personal thing. "I think most folks tend to give out what they like," says Steve Almond, author of the historical sweets guide, CandyFreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America. "There's a dual motive here." Steve less 
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