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Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Waukegan
Illinois
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Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
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