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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, this is the dumbest thing ever, but I’m feeling down about the 4th of July (of all holidays!)! I grew up in a midwestern town with a neighborhood parade and multiple nights of town-sponsored evening fireworks shows. Everyone went to both and neighbors hosted a massive potluck dinner. Since then I’ve lived in places like Boston with epic celebrations. Now I live in a different town and I think I moved to the wrong place. No local parade. Fireworks are illegal but there aren’t municipal shows, so people just buy them on reservations and set them off one at a time at 3 am until school starts again. I tried to organized a bbq with friends and a day on the beach, but everyone is on vacation or visiting relatives.

Is the 4th of a July a big community event where you live, or is the phenomenon of it being just another long weekend for travel something you’re seeing, too? I know we see a patriotic holiday through a much more complicated lens than we used to, but it’s basically been erased from the social calendar of my circle and I’m sad.[/quote]

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