As he was walking to his weekly basketball practice, a song reminded him of that lovely sequence in the Phish documentary "Bittersweet Motel" where a beautiful young girl, a truly hard-core phishhead just as the many that can be found among the scores of devoted followers the band has while on tour, dances around and sings at the spirit-lifting song "Love Will Keep Us Together", the Captain and Tennille song from the 1970s that randomly had started playing on his iPod. In that sequence, a beauty goes round and round and waves her arms and sings, broad grin across her face, wearing only a long-sleeved denim sweater down to her thigh, looking a little too cheerful in the first minutes of daylight of a brand new dawn, somewhere in Limestone, Maine, at the band's 1997 multi-day festival "The Great Went". There is something quite charming in that scene, a combination of the soft blueish light in the air, the positive vibes set by the background song, the demonstration of genuine joy by a perfect girl and by other phishheads which show up and become part of the performance, all of them displaying that distinctive radiant look only young people has, all of them also looking happily worn out after a full night of a determined quest for pleasure.
He kept walking, grinning and singing the song to himself, unable to conceal the passing thought that youth was gone too fast too soon.
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