Can you be nostalgic for something you never actually experienced?

I sure can.

You may remember the feeling from Midnight in Paris. Owen Wilson plays Gil, a writer who’s homesick for a decade he was never alive for. Gil suffers from Golden Age Thinking. Then he goes out walking one night in Paris. The clock strikes twelve. Suddenly he’s in the company of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Salvador Dalí.

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