Smell can trigger a memory so strongly, so distinctly, so
quickly. I remember right before my brother was born, my mother gave me a scented
My Little Pony that smelled like a
bubble bath. It was peptobismol pink with cotton candy blue hair. Whenever I
smell bubble bath now, 23 years later, I have an instant flashback to holding
that pink and blue pony in my chubby little, 3 year old hands - I am overcome with
that mix of excitement and jealousy that precedes a sibling.
