Forelsket
for-EL-sket
n.The euphoria of beginning to fall in love.
NorwegianEstablished linguistic term
The First Eleven Days
Astrid is thirty-eight and a structural engineer and has spent the last eleven days being extremely stupid, and is entirely aware of it, and has decided not to intervene.
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The inventory, kept honestly:
She has listened to one song forty-one times. It is not a good song. She has checked, in a clear moment, at about four in the afternoon on day nine, and can confirm it is a fairly ordinary song that she would previously have described as fine.
She has laughed on a bus, alone, twice.