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waldosia– n.  a condition in which you keep scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, as if your brain is checking to see whether they’re still in your life, … Continue reading →

tangency– n.  a fleeting glimpse of what might have been. I tend to live in the real world as it is, not too dreamy or wishful that things were different. I tend to accept things as they are. I don’t … Continue reading →

redesis – n. a feeling of queasiness while offering someone advice, knowing they might well face a totally different set of constraints and capabilities, any of which might propel them to a wildly different outcome – which makes you wonder … Continue reading →

amoransia – n. the melodramatic thrill of unrequited love; the longing to pine for someone you can never have, wallowing in devotion to some impossible person who could give your life meaning by their very absence. Another young person’s word … Continue reading →