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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Merrenness

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Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Sitheless

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The Mcfly Effect

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Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Deep Gut

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Incidental Contact High

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Scabulous

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