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the shock of meeting back up with someone and learning that your mental image of them had fallen wildly out of date—having grown up or gotten old, fallen apart or pulled themselves together—which shakes your faith in the accuracy of the social puppet show that runs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

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Monachopsis

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Attriage

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Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Nighthawk

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Eisce

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