Candling

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Candling

v. intr.
the habit of taking stock of your life on the occasion of your birthday—letting it serve as a kind of internal referendum on all your goals and qualities and relationships and accomplishments so far—which makes you want to dress just a little nicer that day, as if you’re standing before a parole board that convenes once a year to adjudicate your release from childhood.

From candling, a method of egg inspection in which an egg is backlit with a candle flame to reveal how the chick is growing, or if it's there at all.

Apolytus

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Endzoned

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Deep Gut

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The Wends

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Emodox

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Flichtish

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The Meantime

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Fitching

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Indosentia

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Punt Kick

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Liberosis

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Leidenfreude

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Candling

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Solysium

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Sayfish

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Symptomania

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Typifice

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Tillid

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Aftergloom

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Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Semaphorism

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Ochisia

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The Til

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Querinous

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Foilsick

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