what's that word...

when you hear a word for the first time ever, then soon after you hear it again a second time, after having gone your whole life without hearing it? there must be a word for it, but i can't figure out what it is, and no one justin or i have surveyed seems to know, either. if you know, please relieve the torment and comment here on it.

i experienced a little of that (insert word for above phenomenon here) this week reading vixanne's blog. she wrote about being embarassed to not have a living baby, and foolish, as though she had just been pretending to be pregnant before her son was stillborn. i have felt the exact same thing, both when i went back to work and in the last few weeks of pregnancy, when it felt like hans was never going to come out, and i thought everyone must be staring at me as i stood at the copier and thinking, she pretended for nine months but now the jig is up! it's just too strange.