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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 21, 2025

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The first Katherine was blonde, pretty in a plain way, and had a brown paper bag during show-and-tell in Mrs. Rice's 1st grade class in 1974.

This is not about ick or ASMR but your story reminds me of a peculiar memory I have. It was late summer in the mid 90s, a few weeks after our confirmation camp (it's a Lutheran thing in some of the Nordic countries). The setting was a "party" (as much as 14-15 year old well behaved kids had a "parties" back in those days anyway) and there was A Girl there. To this day I remember roughly how she looked, her hair, her name and particularly the scent of the perfume she used that day to the extent that on the few times I've smelled that same scent, it's always taken me back to that moment even several decades later. This would otherwise be par the course for an infatuated 14 year old except I wasn't particularly interested in her. She was just an acquaitance I interacted with during the two weeks at the camp and maybe half a dozen times afterwards but for some reason that specific smell has stayed in my memory forever since.