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Barreca: Holidays bring both the burdens and blessings of nostalgia
By Gina Barreca
Published: December 23, 2018, 6:01am
The days huddled up against Christmas aren’t always filled with cheerful times, despite what ads, television specials and everybody else’s Facebook posts appear to promise. For many of us, they bring a sense of profoundly mixed, if not contradictory, emotions.
There’s nostalgia, which can be sentimentally satisfying (“Remember when Grandpa used to smoke his Meerschaum pipe in front of the fireplace?”) or unsettling (“Remember how Grandma used to scream when Grandpa smoked in the house?”).
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