longing for home
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A memory is unlocked in a pair of slouchy carpenter pants and delicate stacks of golden jewelry, and the longing for home is temporarily satiated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Most of the band took up jobs as day labourers and casual workers to make ends meet and the songs they perform, composed in Khartoum, are full of anguish and longing for home.
From BBC ● May 8, 2023
So they are biding their time, waiting for the end of a war that shows no signs of ending soon, longing for home and refusing to think too far into the future.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
Yet in both examples, it is that longing for home that can serve as the foundation, eventually allowing you to find that path.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
The inhabitants met them with kindness and gave them their flower-food to eat, but those who tasted it, only a few fortunately, lost their longing for home.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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