I feel the same. 35 years ago I was living in SF and took muni bus and sat next to an elderly woman who spoke English with an accent. I always perk up at that and asked where she was born. She was born in Russia and came to 🇺🇸 before the revolution. She was born in in 1901. I asked if she remembered the Czar and her eyes grew misty in memory and she watched Czar Nicholas and his family in a procession. I listened for about 15 min. until my stop. She seemed happy to have someone to talk to and listen. The people around us grew quiet as they listened too, she was a living breathing history book.