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Spinning Playback Head

n. The disorienting feeling of meeting back up with an old friend and realizing that you've become different people on divergent paths--that even though they're standing right in front of you, the person you once knew isn't really there anymore.

Etymology

After the part of a VCR that reads the signal on a videotape.

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