Presenting 'Throughline': The Nostalgia Bone
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Nastalgia - A Disease of the Heart
Nastaljia was falsely diagnosed as a deadly disease in others like soldiers on the battlefield. The only known cure for nastalgia is to return people home, but that didn't work. When soldier returned from war they yearned for home and its ghost haunted them back at home. There were currents that started to shift nastalgia from a disease to an emotion when we come back. It's almost as if it had more to do with time than with place. And so you if you wanted to trace nastalJia as the spreading agent, it kind of spreads from the military out into society and perplexed the medical community.
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