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.

Elsing

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Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Midding

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Kairosclerosis

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Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Vulture Shock

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