Could you tell me a time you felt homesick?

Having lived at home with my parents all my life, when I was twenty, I came two hundred miles from my family home in Todmorden to college, in Edinburgh. I was very close to my family, especially my mother. Perhaps this was partly because during the war my father was away in the navy so there was just my mother and me. My brother was not born till after the war. For the first term in Edinburgh I was terribly homesick and quite unhappy. I went home for Christmas and had a happy time amongst family and friends. I returned to Edinburgh slightly apprehensive but not as bad as the first term. Shortly into the second term I met the man who would eventually become my husband. After that the homesickness left me for good and I was happy either home or away.