The Interior Wilderness Vox Obscura
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apolytus
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n. the moment you realize you are changing as a person, finally outgrowing your old problems like a reptile shedding its skin, already able to twist back around and chuckle at this weirdly antiquated caricature of yourself that will soon come off completely.
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From apolysis, the stage of molting when an invertebrate's shell begins to separate from the skin beneath it + adultus, sacrificed. Pronounced "ah-pahl-i-tuhs."