Lookaback

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Lookaback

n.
the shock of meeting back up with someone and learning that your mental image of them had fallen wildly out of date—having grown up or gotten old, fallen apart or pulled themselves together—which shakes your faith in the accuracy of the social puppet show that runs continuously inside your head.

From look back + taken aback, taken by surprise.

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Wellium

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Keep

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Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Mal De Coucou

a blurry image of several men