"Nostalgia is one of the great enemies of……" — Unknown Author
"Nostalgia is one of the great enemies of clear thinking about the family. The disruption of families in the nineteenth century through death, separation, and other convulsions of an industrializing economy was much more catastrophic than we imagine."
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