waybackweight
/ˈweɪbækˌweɪt/nounVerified NewThe mass of an old identity that a reunion drops back onto you.
At the school reunion you are instantly sixteen again, measured against a self that stopped updating decades ago. Leaving takes a day or two.
Etym. — wayback (as in "way back when") + weight — the past as load, not souvenir.
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