The present study seeks to offer insights into how former study abroad students, temporally beyond the period of initial re-entry into their home environments, perceive Spanish as a foreign language in their lives now. This post-sojourn period is explored within the framework of the L2 Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, 2009) and the expanded model of investment (Darvin & Norton, 2015). Written and oral narratives were collected from a sample of ten former mixed-major sojourners, who had studied abroad between 11-40 months earlier in Spain. They were now living and working elsewhere. The narratives were analyzed adopting a thematic analysis method (Braun & Clarke, 2006, 2013), for patterns across the dataset. Findings showed four dominant themes: (1) identity echoes; (2) a pivotal experience; (3) sustaining or not sustaining; and (4) enduring value. In the interests of economy, we focused on the words of five participants.