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How nostalgia prevents real connection

I started a group chat with old high school friends and we only talk about memories from 15 years ago and never about our current lives.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Shared memories can become walls that block present intimacy.

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

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