\nSometimes I see people who aren’t there, instead of the people who are.\n<\/p>\n
\nI pass some random person in the street, and for a brief moment I know<\/b> it’s someone familiar – and it’s always someone who couldn’t possibly be there, because I know they’re in another country. Then my brain catches up and I see that there’s barely even a likeness. But for that fleeting moment there is such a strong connection that I cannot think about anything else, and when it’s gone, there’s always a sense of loss.\n<\/p>\n
\nA few times this summer I “saw” colleagues from London. I remember several similar occurrences from when I first moved to Sweden 16 years ago. It says something about the strength of the sensation: even now I can remember where I was walking (outside my high school) when I “saw” one of them.\n<\/p>\n
\nInterestingly I have never “seen” the people I used to see most often, or the people I missed most, but acquaintances whom I hadn’t even thought much about before moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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