Plata Rasa

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Plata Rasa

n.
the lulling sound of a running dishwasher, whose steady maternal shushing somehow puts you completely at peace with not having circumnavigated anything solo.

Latin plata, plate + rasa, blank or scraped clean. Pronounced “pla-tuh rah-suh.”

Hanker Sore

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Mornden

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Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Justing

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Zielschmerz

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Volander

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