Personal Narrative: My Mother's Smell

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There is nothing more devastating than the death of a loved one. Whether it comes suddenly and unexpectedly, or at the end of a long and painful illness, every death leaves you broken . It's a shocking loss that takes our breath away and leaves us lost. You lost a part of yourself, a piece of your soul.

They say that the sense of smell is more closely linked to memory than any of the other senses, and I believe that is true. I still can remember my mother's smell. She smelled like lilac, a smell that provided comfort, hope, love ... It was a most wonderful smell, one I still remember even after years.

She died suddenly, one day she was well, and the other she falls asleep, and never woke up. No one knew why? No one knew how it happened? I

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