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carbontech
· 4 years ago
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First day of school in Grade 1. The building, having been relatively empty for the summer, had developed a unique, not unpleasant, but different, musty smell. I've run into a fleeting shadow of that scent, a dozen or so times over the last, almost 6 decades, and each and every time I'm transported back to that day.
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deleted
· 4 years ago
That's because your sense of smell is more closely associated with memory than any other sense.
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adam44
· 4 years ago
That explains my lack of memory. I can't smell.
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e
· 4 years ago
Am I the only one here with a shitty sense of smell?
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carbontech
· 4 years ago
A poor sense of smell is still better than none. Sister-in-law lost her sense of smell 20 years ago, after surgery to remove nasal polyps and a former coworker, who was studying to be a chef, had a bike accident, struck his head on the ground and lost his permanently-aspiring chef to mechanic.
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cryoenthusiast
· 4 years ago
Don't polyps regenerate??
carbontech
· 4 years ago
No idea, but it wasn't the actual removal of them, but the procedure and either the anesthetics or whatever drugs they had her on, either singly or in combination caused the unforseen complication.
purplepumpkin
· 4 years ago
Sometimes I also remember a smell and that's a fleeting but powerful sensation.
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