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.

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Incidental Contact High

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Skidding

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Kenaway

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O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Amoransia

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