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No resolution this year. Purgatory has been issued to make good on last year's promise. We traveled into Philadelphia for dinner and fireworks, other minor festivities entertained us in between. What we experienced was an unwavering peacefulness. The city was eerily deserted in the earlier hours as we walked around looking at buildings and closed shops. We emerged from dinner - zarusoba and beksaeju - around nine o'clock to find the sidewalks filling with people, many dressed elegantly, most happily drunk, who strolled along the streets and accumulated at the various attractions scheduled for the evening. Even as density increased, it remained unexpectedly quiet. People oohed and ahhed at the spectacles with youthful innocence. It was lovely.

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