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Why brief nostalgic moments hurt so much

I heard my old band's song on the radio and for a moment I felt like that 22-year-old who thought music would save the world and then reality crashed back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sudden contact with past selves highlights the distance traveled and dreams abandoned.

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“Where Are You with Nostalgia — its function and its limits?”

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