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énouement
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n. the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, finally learning the answers to how things turned out but being unable to tell your past self.
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French énouer, to pluck defective bits from a stretch of cloth + dénouement, the final part of a story, in which all the threads of the plot are drawn together and everything is explained. Pronounced "ey-noo-mahn."