Welcome! We're continuing with the daily prompts in the Bloganuary blog challenge 2023. Today's question is "Do you have a memory that’s linked to a smell?" This is an interesting one for sure. It seems to imply awareness of the fact that olfactory input is the sense most strongly associated with memories. (I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere...) Anyway, I spent a little while trying to think of a good example for me. Finally, I remembered a good but strange one. There are several species of w
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