The Kick Drop

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The Kick Drop

n.
the moment you wake up from an immersive dream and have to abruptly recalibrate to the real world—unquitting your job, falling right back out of love, reburying your lost loved ones.

In American football, the drop kick is when a player drops the ball and kicks it as it bounces off the ground, used as a method of restarting play.

Rückkehrunruhe

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Slipfast

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Licotic

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Justing

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Trumspringa

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Volander

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Wildred

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Gobo

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Ghough

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Mahpiohanzia

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Ringlorn

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Idlewild

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Plata Rasa

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Chrysalism

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Vulture Shock

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Occhiolism

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Harmonoia

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Jouska

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Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Deep Gut

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Ironsick

a group of random devices

Redesis

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Ghough

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Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Rubatosis

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Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure