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Anonymous thoughts about homecoming.

Or finding that you've changed and it hasn't.

The return that reveals how far you've traveled.

The impossibility of going back to something that exists only as memory.

Homecoming signals

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Homecoming is the experience of returning — to a place, a person, a phase of life — and finding that the return is impossible. You can be in the location. But the version of home that existed in memory is not the version that exists now. You changed. It changed. The two changes don't produce a match.

Anonymous thoughts about homecoming posted here are from people who went back — the honest account of what it's like to discover that home was partly a construction.