Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for November 14, 1999

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Time for another edition of celebrity interview! With your host: Biff Biffwell! Biff: Greetings, friends! I'm here today with everyone's favorite gourd... Jack O'Lantern, The Halloween pumpkin!! Jack: Groannnn... Biff: Jack, Halloween has been over for two weeks, and I'm sure a lot of folks are wondering: How are you doing? Jack: How am I doing? How am I doing? Jack: I'm rotting, that's how I'm doing! My once-hard exterior is turning soft and slimy! I'm covered with mold! Biff: Hmm... Yes, so I see... Jack: Oh, do you? You have no idea what we pumpkins go through! Jack: We wait all year for Halloween!... And then, when it's over, what happens to us? We're abandoned!... Forgotten! Jack: I can't take it anymore! I'm gonna go out tonight and... and... Biff: Get smashed? Jack: I'm a shell of my former self.