near to home
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near to home
Affecting one deeply and emotionally because one can strongly relate to it. My patient's lung cancer diagnosis is near to home for me because my uncle recently died of the same thing. Because I was bullied as a kid, I teared up when my son told me that he gets teased at school—it just felt so near to home.
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