Laser

At 17, I was thread-thin, played the violin, and had read Turgenev, Chekhov, Tolstoy, and some of Dostoevsky. I often walked part of my school route with a girl who had repeated a year and was new in my class. She had magnificent hair, a dark blonde...

In my childhood in the 60s, there was little scent. We children smelled of soap - right after the bath on Saturday evening. Then we smelled of nothing for a few days until we started to smell a bit and the oven was heated again the following Saturday....