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Displays of flirty costumes inside local Halloween stores evoke a scene from the 2004 film "Mean Girls," which glibly lampoons the nylon-thin line between "costume" and "lingerie."

Patty Lezama doesn't sugarcoat the ongoing bouts of depression and nightmares that jolt her awake in the dead of night - two long-term side effects triggered by a plague of childhood traumas beginning at age 6, when her 20-year-old uncle molested her.