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.

Ne’er-Be-Gone

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Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

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Rückkehrunruhe

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Exulansis

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Ameneurosis

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Justing

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The Kick Drop

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Harmonoia

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Zielschmerz

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Mahpiohanzia

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Occhiolism

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Looseleft

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Plata Rasa

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Gobo

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Licotic

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Ghough

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Treachery Of The Common

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Ringlorn

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Addleworth

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Trueholding

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Ringlorn

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Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Aftergloom

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Nyctous

a person walking in the middle of a street

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them