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Ever since we were together, my wife has known about a magical place called Lincoln City, a modest beach town on the central-Oregon1 . But for me, it holds a Shangri-La-like myth. Lincoln City is where I spent one2 week each year as a boy,3 the rough beaches for beautiful pebbles, fishing off the local pier, and4 matches outside my aunt's beach house. These are5 my happiest childhood memories.
So, it was with great6 that, not long after marrying, I took my wife to visit the "Best Place" in the world. For me, it was every bit as7 as I remember. For her, no so much. She couldn't8 the fishy smell as well as the chilly wind: Ever since, she has considered Lincoln City my unexplainable 9 with no basis in reality.
In most cases, our assessments of a place or experience seldom differ. In this case, our wildly10 , perceptions of Lincoln City can be11 . by one of the strangest and most powerful feelings that humans12 : nostalgia(怀旧). Psychologists have defined nostalgia as a self-conscious, 13 but dominantly positive experience, a defense response to unhappiness and a relief from a negative mood. Maybe that is why on a windy14 day, the kind that would normally make me15 . a fishy smell will bring me the mixed feelings that my wife couldn't share.
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