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    Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form ofmelancholia, due to homesickness.

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      A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.
      The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

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        reminiscent of a time when the world ceased to move around you because you had it all.

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          A longing for the good old days, whether or not they were very good. Or:
          A tendency to think that if you were twenty years younger, you would be happy -- as if you actually had been happy when you really were twenty years younger.

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            Nostalgia, comes from nostros (a return home) and algos (a painful condition). So in nostalgia we see a return home to a painful condition. Homesickness

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              When you think about how great your life was a few years ago...and then depress yourself knowing it won't be that way ever again. Ever.

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                An endless cycle of longing for the past.

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                  The remebrance of a good time or event that makes you happy.
                  remembring the past.

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                    The tugging feeling you get when you watch Harry's face as he receives a cake from Hagrid on his eleventh birthday.

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                      The feeling you get when you play Jak and Daxter.

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                        A remembrance of something that was important to you, something that you loved, something you heard as a infant or a toddler, something that is unforgettable.

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                          A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.

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                            [Playing Halo] 3 in [2017], knowing it has been 10 years since it came out. [Enough said].

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                              a feeling of pleasure and also slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past:

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