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A person who views another’s past pain not as a flaw but as part of a whole person and supports healing. Implies gratitude for a life-changing, loving, close, nonromantic/nonsexual relationship. Structure and pronunciation from Japanese “kintsugi” (金継ぎ, "golden joinery") / “kintsukuroi” (金繕い, "golden repair"), the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using gold lacquer, transmuting breaks and flaws into artistic elements that strengthen, beautify, and reintegrate the piece Spelling from English, an anagram of “so kind”
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