This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
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- Author's profession: Historian
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 17, 1947
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Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one cannot believe impossible things."I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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