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"The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return."
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

Two young souls grapple with love in a cruel world.

(The story is set somewhere between the mid 1980s to early 1990s. The setting is entirely fictional, and names of places might not be accurate even if they are borrowed.)