In Greek, "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound." It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. A timelapse video isn't a spaceship—it's a time machine. Ad man Dan Toth understands this, probably because he's seen the same Mad Men episode as we have. Sometimes you want to go to a place where you know you are loved. Sometimes you want to go to a place where you can see two seconds of every day of the last four months, because you want, no, need to relive those moments when you played a lot of dodgeball and washed your cat.
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