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Essays and letters about how life feels, and the cultural forces shaping how we live. Exploring the edges, the endings, and the threads that bind us to ourselves, each other and the living world.
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On longing for what never was (opens the original)
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The word nostalgia comes from the Ancient Greek words nóstos, return home, and álgos, pain. Literally: pain from the desire to return home.How heartbreaking is that?I’m an extraordinarily nostalgic person. Mr. Whippy on the corner, the tune before the van itself, coins hot in my fist, ninety-nine flake, extra sauce. Nobody worrying about E numbers or whether the milk was grass fed.I have lived in Ibiza for four years now, and every summer I go back to the UK and some part of me is still standing
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