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Abcarian: When did kids start swearing like sailors?

By Robin Abcarian
Published: November 15, 2023, 6:01am

The other morning, on the way to school, my eighth-grade niece was regaling me with stories about the costumes kids wore on Halloween. One classmate, she said, came dressed as a “sexy-ass rabbit.”

I was taken aback, but not by the image of a middle school student in a body suit with bunny ears.

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