longing
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By contrast, on social media, Boy Moms stand alone, the main characters in what often seem like one-woman romantic tragedies of doomed longing.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026
Bonita, longing to know her mother more deeply, follows the stranger from one site of her mother’s purported past to another.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
What they did share was a brutal colonial past, and a longing to achieve economic self-determination.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
My longing to know my mother created a situation where I made artworks and performances in which I looked inside myself to find her and manifest her by becoming her.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
I was longing to say something to Peter while Mutti was out of the room, but I was too shy, and anyway I could not think of a thing to say.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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