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Smells From Your Childhood — How Memory, Emotions, and Scent Are Closely Linked in Our Brains

I struggle with a hazy memory whenever I try to remember something from long ago, especially my younger years. Visual scenes are mostly forgotten, and words that were said are jumbled. At best, the scenes from my childhood play in my head with an opaque overlay and at a hacky buffering speed. The wonderful things I would like to…