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I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.

Alice Steinbach

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Alice Steinbach
Age: 78 †
Born: 1933
Born: October 10
Died: 2012
Died: March 13
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