By Star of David
Date: 2018 Aug 29
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perfume

I still remember
how it began,
this lifelong obsession
with perfumes

a gift from my uncle
returning home
after two decades away

(he didn't even come back
to bury his mother, you see,
forever sending her letters home
unread, unopened)

a pack of five
exquisite French perfumes
I, barely 16,
hooked