I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when yo…

Bill Bryson
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I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him. ✨ Bill Bryson (1989). The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America, p.12, VNR AG
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I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him. ✨ Bill Bryson (1989). The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America, p.12, VNR AG

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