When Lisa was nine and a half, she went to camp.

And while she was there, she wrote a letter.

Dear mom, I can't wait to come home.

And it isn't because I want my dog.

It's because I hate it here.

Thank you. I hate it here. That's Lisa, reading from a letter.

She wrote Home from Camp in 1979.

And this, well, this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.

I'm Dan Meisner. Grown-ups read things they wrote as kids. I'm Dan Meisner.

Grown-ups read things they've heard as kids is an open mic,

where brave adults share the weird, wonderful,

and sometimes bittersweet things they wrote when they were younger.

This time recorded live at Fog Lounge in Windsor, Ontario.

We have hot dog obsessions, Canada-U.S. relations.

And we learn what it's like to fall madly in love with a waiter.

Sometimes if you want to figure out who you are, it can help to remember who you were.

So think about the stuff you wrote when you were a kid.

And stick around.

Music So think about the stuff you wrote when you were a kid and stick around. The word nostalgia at its root comes from the Greek words for pain and homecoming.

Literally, nostalgia is a painful aching desire to return home.

Now, Lisa, who we heard from just a minute ago, Lisa felt nostalgia in the truest sense

of that word.

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