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John Geddes

"Every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?..."

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"Every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?..."

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"I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land."

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"We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild."

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"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."

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"Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy."

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"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."

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"When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present."

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"You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food."

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"I don't know what it is about the food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory."

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