Mr. Kay, in his novel, describes the mountain towns he visits decades after his waiter days as "ghost towns".
So he stole food from the Army and gave it to destitute locals in Normandy, who, when I visited decades later, still remembered "Easy," the Black soldier who had fed them everyday.
Talykira hadn't been visited in decades.
Millions on both sides have families and friends on the other side whom they have not visited in decades.
Many years later, earlier this year, I was at my dad's funeral at this very same church, the first time I'd visited for decades.
The glacially smooth Delphine Seyrig plays Hélène, a middle-aged furniture dealer in Boulogne-sur-Mer, who summons an old flame, Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kérien), to visit after decades apart.
IT'S 3 a.m. on a bitter, blustery New York night, and from a bedside radio on which the volume is adjusted to a comforting murmur, the voice of an unfamiliar singer calls through my half-sleep, and I have the sensation of being transported to a land of sonic dreams I haven't visited in decades.
But when I finally visited it decades later, with a hamper of food and wine to hear Beethoven's Ninth and watch the sunset in perfect weather, the Bowl seemed to have an edge over both of them.
I told Saif how my uncle, who was a senior member of the Pakistani police force, was assigned to guard his father, Moammar, when he visited Pakistan decades ago.
