Solla, Solla, Solla

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Solla, Solla, Solla

n.
an incantation whispered privately to yourself to celebrate the loss of something or someone you loved, which almost makes it feel like a deliberate renunciation, consciously deciding to relinquish them to an earlier part of your life.

Latin solla, whole, unbroken + Sesotho fasolla, to disconnect + Estonian las olla, let it be. Pronounced “suh-lah, suh-lah, suh-lah.”

Lap Year

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Etterath

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Spinning Playback Head

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Kerisl

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Inerrata

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Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

O’Erpine

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Cullaways

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Backmasking

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Present-Tense

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Anchorage

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Affogatia

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Midsummer

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Heart Of Aces

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Halfwise

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Fellchaser

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Keta

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Nowlings

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Chrysalism

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Nilous

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Idlewild

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Ochisia

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Keep

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Caucic

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Kairosclerosis

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Fawtle

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Ecsis

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