I believe nostalgia could be the very thing that saves us.
My friend Emily died on Wednesday. She had been sick for several months, but I only found out about how bad things had become a few weeks ago. We hadn’t been close for several years, not since I left Australia in 2013. But she was one of my best friends for a long time. We met when we were twelve years old – we were co-captains of our school’s worst ten…