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Hiraeth

HEER-ithe

n.Homesickness for a place you cannot return to, or that never quite existed.

WelshEstablished linguistic term

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The House That Isn't There
The village had a website now. Priya found it at two in the morning, the way you find things at two in the morning, and there was a photograph of the lane taken from roughly where the bus used to stop.
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