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"Tell me something about your mother's hands. The smell, the shape, what they did."

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Wim Bakker

Friesland · b. 1935

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.
Anna van der Berg

Drenthe · b. 1938

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.