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.”

Heart Of Aces

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Halfwise

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Inerrata

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Archimony

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Anchorage

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Backmasking

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Present-Tense

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Mithenness

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Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

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Lisolia

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Etterath

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Rasque

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Blinkback

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Yeorie

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Anticious

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Keta

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Harke

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Aftersome

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Fitzcarraldo

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Lookaback

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Affogatia

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Fata Organa

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Epistrix

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Trumspringa

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Redesis

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Leidenfreude

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