The title of a Thomas Wolfe book is called
You Can't Go Home Again.
It is an interesting observation in our lives with very much older real estate from our growing up years and how visiting it so many years out, well things are just different. Sure some kids return to younger age parents with a poor economy. But in normal times 10, 15, 20, 30 years out, well it is DIFFERENT. The house looks smaller, some people have passed away, the chain link fence is rusty, the trees and bushes are much bigger, maybe there is more traffic and growth around the area. You cannot re-create the freeze frame in your mind how it was when YOU were there.
Other people you knew left. It is like being in a Twilight Zone episode. The playground down the street is bulldozed. The high school renovated.
Everything now just seems memories and you can't relive those memories. Sure there are places in the country where life does even seem to stand still for 50 years or more. But if you take in that surreal experience of GOING HOME sometime you will know exactly what I am talking about.
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