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Romesick

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  • Long before we reached Leghorn I was so Romesick that I would have paid them anything they asked.

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

  • We left Rome with such a nostalgic pang in our hearts that we tried to find relief in a name for it, and we called ourselves Romesick.

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

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  • MaryW commented on the word Romesick

    Our year together in Rome, 1963-64, changed me forever; I fell in love with Rome hard. For those who do, they say when they are away from the city that they are "Romesick."

    Charles Rowan Beye, My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), p. 154

    March 6, 2016