Deep Gut

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Deep Gut

n.
a resurgent emotion that you hadn’t felt in years, that you might have forgotten about completely if your emotional playlist hadn’t accidentally been left on shuffle.

In music, a deep cut is a lesser-known track that only an artist’s true fans or completists might appreciate.

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

The Til

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Anthrodynia

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Elsewise

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Malotype

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