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Here's a little nostalgia piece I wrote a while back and haven't found a home for yet: HOME IS WHERE THE HEATH BAR IS Nostalgia is defined as a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time, home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends. It is a sentimental yearning for the happiness of the past. There is something so universal in this yearning that we identify with the remembrances of others, although they be far removed from our own history. When memory is faulty, invention fills in the blanks, true to the spirit, if not to the reality. Sometimes, however, pain must join with pleasure to give perspective to a nostalgic journey. This is a remembrance of a youth of post-war (WWII) Midwest. (It might have been me.) Doc W____ wasn’t the only dentist in town, but he was certainly the oldest. We speculated that he was at least one hundred and two, and his dental equipment was even older. I seem to remember that the drill was powered by foot p