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homesickness



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Ada is facing a make-or-break debut and struggling with a homesickness that seems to outweigh her desire to model.

From Salon Jun. 29, 2026

That alleviated some homesickness, but it didn’t get Iamaleava’s career up off the ground.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

The work reflects Kahlo’s ambivalence toward the U.S. where she often felt out of place and her homesickness for Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

Skies said she had been out in Los Angeles "for a good few years now and I miss home a lot but making a very British album definitely cured some of my homesickness".

From BBC Nov. 7, 2025

She’d pinned her drawings and old photos of New Orleans on the walls, but that only made her homesickness worse.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan




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