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"What do you remember about your grandmother's garden?"
1 voice
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Greta Visser
NL
My grandmother's garden was full of herbs and currants. You could hide between the bean poles. The smell of the earth after rain stays with me.
"Tell me something about your mother's hands. The smell, the shape, what they did."
2 voices
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Wim Bakker
NL
My mother's hands were rough from working in the stable. But when she tucked me in at night they felt soft and smelled of soap.
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Anna van der Berg
NL
My mother's hands always smelled of soap and butter from cooking. Sometimes of the garden, of thyme. In the evening I could smell her hands on the sheet.
"What do you remember about Sunday morning in your house when you were small?"
2 voices
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Greta Visser
NL
On Sunday morning the whole house smelled of coffee and fried eggs. My father read the newspaper, my mother sang while she set the table.
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Anna van der Berg
NL
Sunday morning was quiet. First the church bells in the distance, then the bread from the oven and the voice of my mother humming the psalm under her breath.
"Describe the bread your family ate. The smell, the shape, who baked it."
1 voice
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Wim Bakker
NL
The bread was dark and large, a whole week on the table. My mother baked it every Tuesday. The smell of fresh bread and flour on her apron.