Lap Year

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Lap Year

n.
the age at which you become older than your parents were when you were born, which signals that your stage of the race has already begun, having spent years coasting in their slipstream as they tackled the mountain stages of life, leaving you strong, energetic, and deeply mortified by their loud yellow jerseys.

From lap, one full circuit around a course + gap year, a regenerative break between adjacent stages of life. In the Tour de France, the cyclist with the lowest time receives a ceremonial yellow jersey and the right to start the next stage.

Heart Of Aces

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Keyframe

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Austice

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Anchorage

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Aulasy

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Clockwise

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Harke

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Etterath

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Backmasking

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Epistrix

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Ecury

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Rasque

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Thwit

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O’Erpine

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Spinning Playback Head

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Zysia

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Emorries

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Alpha Exposure

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Aulasy

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Anecdoche

Fool’s Guilt

Anaphasia

Fata Organa

Rookish

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Austice

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Waldosia

Kerisl

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