Brian Laird on WNYC, have any of you listening right now ever gone back and visited your

childhood home?

We're going to bring on a guest who has just written about this in the Atlantic,

and we're going to open up the phones and ask, have you ever visited your childhood home? And what was

that like for you? 212-433 WNYC. Why did you want to see the physical house, the physical apartment,

your childhood home? Did you go back,

ever, years later, and look at your childhood home? Why, and what was that like for you?

212-433 WNYC, if you want to call in and tell a story or text us with a brief version of a story,

212-433-9692. And why do we ask? Well, a new article in the

Atlantic is titled, Your childhood home might never stop haunting you. It's by Faith Hill.

And she writes about how many of us feel pulled toward the places where we grew up, but that it

can be weird when our old and new

selves collide. She explores how our childhood memories and homes are so important in

understanding who we are and why, and she joins us now. Hi, Faith. Welcome back to WNYC. Hi, thank you

for having me. So you start off your piece by reliving the

different memories that arise when thinking of your own childhood home. What got you on to this?

Yeah, so my mother still lives in my childhood home where I live for my whole childhood,

and she is trying to sell the house, which totally is

fair and makes sense. But I feel so kind of just so upset by that. I'm almost like surprised that

I feel that way. And I just became very curious about like why, you know, we talk about how home is

where the heart is and home is

wherever I'm with you. And that makes sense that people are really what, you know, what's most

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