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Why returning home destroys idealized memories

Every time I visit my hometown I remember it wrong and the disappointment is crushing because nothing matches what I thought I knew

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Nostalgic reconstruction often creates impossible standards that present reality cannot match.

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