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nostalgic

 adjective
     
nos‧tal‧gic
if you feel nostalgic about a time in the past, you feel happy when you remember it, and in some ways you wish that things had not changed:
Seeing those old school photographs has made me feel quite nostalgic.
a nostalgic look back at the 1950s
nostalgic about
He remained nostalgic about his days as a young actor.
—nostalgically adverb:
Tim spoke nostalgically of his first visit to Peru.
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