Heartworm

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Heartworm

n.
a relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished, like an abandoned campsite whose smoldering embers still have the power to start a forest fire.

From heart + earworm, a catchy piece of music that compulsively loops inside your head.

Thrapt

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Hiddled

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Skidding

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Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Aubadoir

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Fool’s Guilt

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