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you can't go home again

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you can't go home again

You can't truly go back to a place you once lived because so much will have changed since you left that it is not the same place anymore. Jim is so excited to visit his childhood town—I hope he knows that you can't go home again. I had such a great time in college that I'm nervous to go back for my reunion, since you can never go home again.

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