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The photo is from my sister who is enjoying the happiest place on earth this week.  Explaining Disneyland to an adult who's not from here and has never been there, I relied on one word to explain why grown-ups go, even though they don't have children:  nostalgia.

Where else can you go from your past, from your cotton candy-sticky fingered days, tired and over-sunned, never-wanting-the-ride-to-end youth that is still (mostly) the same?  Where you can be, for a few hours, free from thinking about rent, what's wrong with your cat, and the debt ceiling, and concentrate on sighting giant vest-wearing dogs and fancy princesses, steering cars that never let you go off track and keeping your mouse ears from flying away on the tea cups.  Oh sure, they're a big corporation (I'll keep my more specific comments to myself; this is the internet after all), but they give us that, an elaborate game of pretend, and we all believe, we're all in on it.

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  1. well said..the place's cleanliness, friendliness, and amazing details of the attractions has not changed. Finding food that wasn't on a stick bore a challenge...

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