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Why returning to your childhood places can feel like grief

Every time I drive past my childhood neighborhood I get this sick feeling in my stomach because all the houses look exactly the same but everything that made it home is gone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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We mistake the physical containers of memory for the living relationships that once filled them with meaning.

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“Where Are You with The examined relationship with place?”

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