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When your hometown no longer feels like home

I grew up in this town and moved back after college but all my friends left and the downtown is full of people I do not recognize and I feel like a stranger in my own hometown.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Returning to familiar places that have changed forces us to reckon with how both we and our origins have been transformed by time.

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