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The reward for living through a major loss-of-innocence period of history while coming of age is that you develop a certain capacity for healthy sentimentality. You can appreciate emotional tenor of past without romanticizing it, because you know viscerally why it had to end.
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It may not feel that way now, but I suspect people 14-22 now will be able to appreciate pre-2015 world without regretting ongoing endings. You’ll have no true nostalgia for that era but are not emotionally remote from it either. I have fond memories of 80s but am glad they ended.