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Feeling homesick is like fighting a losing battle; no matter what you do, memories of home will always find a way to remind you what you’ve been constantly missing out on life.

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Home is where you left everything you knew. It’s where your little sister is going to her first dance and you are not there to help her with her hair or makeup.

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It’s learning every day that you can survive anywhere, but you can only truly live at home.

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Just like in a relationship, you find yourself in the “honeymoon stage” of a new country within the first couple months…that is until your unfolded the little blemishes and “not so enjoyable” parts that have yet become so obvious.

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All the magic on this Earth cannot fix you if you don’t fix yourself first.

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I’m starting to think it is a good thing because if it doesn’t challenge you it won’t change you.

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Maybe someday I will find home in the crevice between a neck and shoulder, or someone else will find it in the hand of another. Who can really know what home actually is?

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Here are 7 key tips to help make your move a little bit easier:

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Miss certain foods. Miss your parents’ home cooking, but miss chain restaurants, too. Miss your eleventh birthday party at the Cheesecake Factory, and remember how you wore your favorite outfit to what you thought was the fanciest restaurant in the world.

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Things that haven’t cure my nostalgia: cranberry juice, water, shots, vitamins, candy, Aleve, stretching, and music. Definitely do not try music.