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Why we keep calling lost places home

I've been living here for fifteen years but still catch myself saying 'back home' about a place my family can never return to.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Language betrays the persistence of attachment to spaces that exist only in memory.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief for lost homeland — diaspora mourning?”

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