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Vinegar and Madeleines
by J.E. Seuk Ksenia Makagonova Today the teacher taught her that smells are effective openers of memory. Honeyed milk to mother’s touch, tang of vinegar twinging at her tricky elbow heaved into walls of penance for that broken bottle four years past. It makes sense! She recently learned that while you’re asleep your nose can transport itself to other places, absorbing newer smells through newer faces — vacuuming up senses unknown to know. Now she wonders if her grandmother’s
Sep 20, 20241 min read
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