
Of all our senses, that of smell creates the most basic and powerful memories. This is the reason why scents like vanilla remind people on a basic level of home, baking, mom and apple pie (assuming your mom puts vanilla in apple pie. Mine never did, but that's because she would freeze the pie so I couldn't smell it coming, then fling it at me great velocity when I wasn't expecting it. The vanilla might have given it away ahead of time, I suppose.
My childhood memories of apple pie include nothing but pure terror, really. Therapists don't even have a term for this (crustumalophobia?)...
I was toying with the idea of a familiar smell you've smelled before, and came up with 'deja-poo' for today's installment. 'Deja-smell' just didn't seem right, and 'deja-pew' just seemed too...ecclesiastical...
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very cute
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