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    Cafune

    ‘Tenderly running your fingers through your lover’s hair’. Brasilian Portuguese #word To be entirely truthful, the word is very old and initially had a much more prosaic meaning, but let’s not dwell on that.

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    Koi No Yokan

    “The sense one can have upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love. Differs from love at first sight as it does not imply that the feeling of love exists, only the knowledge that a future love is inevitable.” Japanese word

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    THE BEST TRAVEL ADVICE IN THE WORLD

    Travel to wonderland. Just use the rabbit hole and go where the magic is: visit Disneyland or the Harry Potter Studios, follow the GoT locations, spend a week in a 300+ yo home, camp in the desert and bathe in the Milky Way at night. Travel back to yourself, recapture the world as it was before you grew up. Return to your happyplace. You must have one. It’s either a cabin, or a lake, or a beach, or a city, a precise time of the year, a table with a view, or a person. Return as many times as you can, or move there. Travel with your best friend. Friendship…

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    forelsket

    Some words are pure poetry, others are wicked spells. Every now and then you come across a new word that contains a whole story inside. Today I heard of “forelsket”. It is a Norwegian word that means  « the undescribable euforia that you feel when you begin to fall in love ».