Each year at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, there’s a point at which a familiar question surfaces. “Why can’t life be this way?” a hundred different people at a hundred different campsites wonder aloud as music soars overhead, nighttime revelry breaks loose, and people assume the most vibrant versions of themselves.
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