My wife and I moved back to my hometown thinking it would be like when I was a kid but everything has changed and she's miserable and I'm grieving the place that doesn't exist anymore and we're both trapped by a decision we made based on a memory.
More people experience this than they realize.
Geographic nostalgia creates shared disappointment when memory collides with present reality.
“Where Are You with Nostalgia — its function and its limits?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.