Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don’t know how awful it…

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don’t know how awful it is till you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

Roald Dahl

1984

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Homesickness Home

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Autobiography and memoir

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1984

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Roald Dahl

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Dahl, Roald. "Homesickness." Boy: Tales of Childhood. Jonathan Cape, 1984.

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