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Alpha Exposure
n. The otherworldly aura of seeing recordings of a friend in early childhood--catching those little gestures you'd one day come to know, so recognizable yet so foreign, searching their eyes for traces of who it is they'd eventually become.
Etymology
From alpha, the unstable initial release of software still being tested + exposure, the amount of time that light is allowed onto photographic film.
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