beshert
n.— «I am sad today because my Mother’s Day gift from our beshert child’s birth country’s gift to us was a demand for yet another document, one we have sent many times… Beshert is yiddish for destiny or soul mate.» —“Mother’s Day: Bitter and Sweet” by Sue Magoo Navel Fuzz May 9, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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