PRE-ORDER your copy of “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” here, from Simon & Schuster: https://bit.ly/3z1RYvH (click on any of the links on the right) I think about this feeling a lot. Driving past your childhood home to show it to a friend, or pointing at a picture of a loved one you lost, only to realize that to them it’s just another house, just another face. Etymology: Aulasy is a contraction of auld lang syne, which is Scots for “times long past”—fragments of which are still...
