Home again - for the first time

Sarah comes back to Boston from California for a visit:

... I got off the T at a station I'd never been to before, Stonybrook, and felt a huge wash of happiness as soon as I saw the three-story Victorians quietly absorbing summer rain under a row of tossing green trees. Those houses really do a number on me in a kind of primordial way. They say "home," and "why don't you rearrange your life right now so that you can live in one of us, because what else could be more important?" My friend Emily G lives in a wonderful apartment in one of those houses, in what seems to be a really great neighborhood in Jamaica Plain called Hyde Square (because every place in Boston is a square). It's funny that it's so familiar even though I've never been here before. ...