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The Nostalgia Bone

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Homer the Odyssey

In the 16 eighties, a group of swiss soldiers stationed abroad started coming down with a mysterious disease. The disease caused this intense form of homesickness. Soldiers longed for their mothers, their normal lives back home before they started fighting. At just 19 years old, johannes haffer decided to write his medical dissertation on the disease. And he eventually decided to call it nastalgia, from the greek words nostosan algioc, or homecoming - roughly translated as ache for home.

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