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Nostalgia

tells us we are in the presence of imminent revelation...

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Feb 23, 2024
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NOSTALGIA

is the arriving waveform of a dynamic past, newly remembered and about to be re-imagined by a mind and a body at last ready to come to terms with what actually occurred. Nostalgia subverts the present by its overwhelming physical connection to a person or a place – to a time in which we lived or to a person with whom we lived…

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