We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True… - Florence King

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We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories [...] but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.

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Florence Virginia King (January 5, 1936 – January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist.

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