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.

La Cuna

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Foreclearing

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Treachery Of The Common

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Kairosclerosis

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Merrenness

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Ne’er-Be-Gone

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Looseleft

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Zielschmerz

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Aubadoir

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Elsewise

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Exulansis

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Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

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Fitzcarraldo

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The Til

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Scabulous

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The Kick Drop

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Ameneurosis

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Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Harmonoia

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Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Jouska

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Anthrodynia

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Antiophobia

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Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape