Nostalgia (from the Greek nostos 'return home' + algos 'pain')
We are all lost, all in some way or other exiled from that place we would most intuitively call 'home'.
What's more, it really doesn't matter if the place from which we feel we have been banished is a land, and a time, we never actually experienced.
This feeling may be a delusion (with any luck, a harmless one), it may be something mystical (as when we visit a place for the first time, yet immediately feel at home), or it may be an actual memory.
This blog will welcome you back to the 1930s - and it doesn't matter at all if you've never "been" there before. And if you are one of those few who grew up there - welcome home.
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