Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always … - Stephen King

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Stephen King

Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly. . . perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant.

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