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03bb0f7
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"Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore."
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old-life
homesick
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Annie Proulx |
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6876229
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There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.
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homeland
homesickness
sad
homesick
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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e223056
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She was right. The purebred girls were making mistakes on purpose, in order to give us an advantage. 'King me,' I growled, out of turn. 'I say king me!' and Felicity meekly complied. Beulah pretended not to mind when we got frustrated with the oblique, fussy movement from square to square and shredded the board to ribbons. I felt sorry for them. I wondered what it would be like to be bred in captivity, and always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the trees you've never seen.
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homesick
wilderness
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Karen Russell |
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fa517a7
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"Oh Lord! Don't, don't start rhapsodising over that cod again, darling! I can't bear it and I know you are going to!" She laughed. "You don't understand. It was because it was so typically English."
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homesick
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Georgette Heyer |
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It didn't help, reminding herself that if she were back in Blackpool she'd spend the afternoon aching to be in London. It just made her feel that she'd never be happy anywhere.
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realistic
homesick
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Nick Hornby |