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That alleviated some homesickness, but it didn’t get Iamaleava’s career up off the ground.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The work reflects Kahlo’s ambivalence toward the U.S. where she often felt out of place and her homesickness for Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The earworms in the soundtrack "cluster neatly around entwined themes: spreading your wings versus the tug of homesickness; finding your path but daring also to lose it", he wrote.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024

When I arrived at my alma mater as a sheltered suburban kid raised as an only child, I struggled with homesickness those first couple of years.

From Slate • May 11, 2024

He sees them through a lens of homesickness, through his memories of Zundert and the closeness of 26 Markt.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman