People in her Laramie, Wyoming, neighborhood know Jesica Mora as the Candy Corn Queen. The nickname came from a bit of silliness four or five years ago when she and her husband Jimmy were sitting around the dinner table one fine October day.

“I was just feeling sassy,” she said. “So, I made the declaration that for the rest of the month, they were not allowed to call me mom. They’d have to call me the Candy Corn Queen.”

The children also got to pick their own October names if they liked.

“My son was the Prince of Pumpkin Pie, because he loves pumpkin pie,” she said. “And then my daughter wanted to be the Princess of

stuffing, because she loves Thanksgiving and she loves stuffing.”

None of the children’s chosen names stuck, but Mora’s did. She becomes the Candy Corn Queen every Oc

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