The Message From My Son That Forced An Impossible Choice – The Archivist

nothing wrong. Ran tests that came back normal.

“Sometimes taste and smell diminish with age,” he’d said kindly. “It’s not uncommon.”

But I was sixty-two, not ninety. And more importantly—my nose was my career. My gift. The thing that made me valuable.

When my fragrances started smelling flat, I panicked.

I’d be in the lab, working on a new blend, and continue reading …