Endzoned

Endzoned

n.
the hollow feeling of having gotten exactly what you thought you wanted, only to learn that it didn’t make you happy.

In sports, the endzone is the final goal, the end of the line—but at a certain point you have to drop the ball.

The Whipgraft Delusion

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The Meantime

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Heartspur

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Fool’s Guilt

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The Giltwrights

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Leidenfreude

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Proluctance

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Liberosis

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Agnosthesia

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Vicarous

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Vaucasy

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Bareleveling

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Malotype

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Wellium

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Endzoned

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Holiette

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Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Suente

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Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Liberosis

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Proluctance

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Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face