The smell of Bazooka bubble gum

[a_akimbo]

So I was having a conversation today with some colleagues and Bazooka Joe came up. Instantly my memory was flooded with the smell of that gum and it had a transporting effect -- not to a particular moment, but to a real sense of feeling good when I was a kid. For me, smell is the most powerful trigger to these memories. Does anyone else have the

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[emilytheslayer]

All the time, yeah. It's half the reason I got into The BPAL craze for a while. Find a blend that hits one of those memory triggers and DUDE. I used to have a candle, that I bought entirely because it smelled exactly like a guy at summer camp. I wasn't into him in like, a boyfriend way, he was just one of the many big brothers I collected growing up, and the candle made me think of him, which took me to camp, and when you're in middle school and high school and it's winter, that's huge.

[a_akimbo]

That's exactly what I'm talking about! The best is that I never know when it's going to happen, and since I'm so nostalgic by nature, I love being caught up in that Proustian looking backwards.

[lynxreign]

Swimming pools and Karate Class, strangely enough...

[a_akimbo]

Interesting!