Thrapt

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Thrapt

adj.
awed at the impact someone has had on your life, feeling intimidated by how profoundly they helped shape your identity, having served as a ghostwriter of a work that nevertheless only appears under your name.

From thrapped, drawn tight, as with nautical ropes + rapt, carried away with emotion.

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Chrysalism

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Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Immerensis

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Nachlophobia

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