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ache for

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ache for someone/something
to feel desire or regret about someone or something. I ache for home, the smell of bread baking, rain hitting the porch roof — even the smell of the hen house. We ache for the victims of war who have lost family, friends, and their homes.


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I suppose that reach may have felt like some act of infidelity to all she once knew, and I wonder, too, if she grieved for her grandmother then as I ache for mine now.
If you ache for the thrill of downhill racing but don't live where it snows, forget sledding.
Chronicling Sparling's sabbatical journey to Australia, Indonesia, and Italy, Travelogue largely succeeds in transforming the highly personal--the ailments, the ache for an absent loved one--into the theatrical and universal.
 
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