There’s a technical term for what I was feeling: nostalgia. Nostos is the Greek word for “return home,” and algos means “pain.” Return home + pain = discomfort you feel when longing to get back to your home. Nostalgia is a bittersweet longing for the past, the sentimental, wistful feeling you get thinking of happy days gone by. It’s wanting to recapture something you once had or once felt, some point in your life that was a golden time. It’s the way you feel watching a certain movie at the holidays or baking something from a recipe your mom used when you were growing up. It’s the pictures you
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