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A scent can break your heart.

by XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX in Six Words on The Food Life on Aug 13, 2011 | add favorite | T-shirt

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Dhani says,

*especially an armpit...

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX says,

that's a different kind of pain.

butterflyxxx says,

some scents can really take you back in memory. Lovely memoir D.

Believe says,

Love this memoir.

Seraphina_Lullaby says,

It seems the older I get, I want to experience everything through my nose. Huh.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX says,

so few realize that scent is probably the strongest of our senses...

Seraphina_Lullaby says,

Makes me swoon...

Seraphina_Lullaby says,

p.s. Do you look like your photo? Just asking.

Amapola says,

oh Delta, it also brings nostalgia... like going to the bakery with my dad, and the smell of freshly baked bread :-)

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX says,

Seraphina...photo is about twenty years old...
Amapola...my Gram used to bake bread...coming home from school to that scent was heaven.

JAD says,

or make you throw up like doublemint gum when pregnant,which makes for my next memior.

Amapola says,

heaven indeed... and I always got to bite a piece of bread before we arrived home :-) Dad used to call me bread monster :-)

sydneyfro says,

Or make you whole again

unknown116 says,

Memory is a strange thing. So is smell. You know, when we were all kids and our parents told us to plug our noses when we drank medicine? That has actual truth. Smell CAN affect taste.

Jujeebal says,

Been there many times. It's the strongest sense for memory retrieval.

DynamicDbytheC says,

As a child I hated the smell of manure, doesn't everyone? Manure is a smell that would accompany my bike rides out on country roads in summer. Many years later, as an adult, I went back to visit and I took my bike out on some of those old bike rides. I suddenly felt a happy feeling smelling manure.

DynamicDbytheC says,

BTW, didn't mean to get off the topic of food. But I guess manure does help grow our food.

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