"We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories [...] but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu."
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Novelists from the United StatesEssayists from the United StatesPeople from Washington, D.C.Columnists from the United StatesWomen authors from the United States
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"Déjà Views", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989), p. 112
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Florence King
Florence Virginia King (January 5, 1936 – January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist.
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