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For a long time, Western culture treated homesickness with a stiff upper lip. “Pull yourself together,” we are told. “This is growth.” And while growth is certainly the goal, the grief for what was left behind is real.

We call it homesickness. But the word itself is a paradox. A sickness implies something to be cured, a malady to be treated with medicine. Yet, as anyone who has moved away—to university, to a new city, to a different country—knows, homesickness is not a flaw in your logic. It is proof of your attachment. Homesick