Lockheartedness

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Lockheartedness

n.
the atmosphere of camaraderie when people are stuck together in a certain place—a stalled elevator, a shelter during a storm, the sleeper car of a train—which leaves them no other option but to be present with each other, with nowhere else to go, and nobody else to be.

From locked up + fullheartedness.

Lilo

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Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Lookaback

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Nullness

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Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

The Til

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