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kontextmaschine:

I just realized for the first time that people who didn’t grow up around Philadelphia have no idea of Mummer’s Day

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Okay so every New Year’s Day we’d have a parade that was like ¼ New York’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and ¾ New Orleans Mardi Gras, with all these krewe-style groups that had been passed on for decades upon decades fielding sections with drumlines and men in the most extravagant feathered costumes

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