Once you have the stench of formaldehyde in your nose, you do not forget, you recognize its residue anywhere it’s been. Not like an animal who leaves behind her scat for bugs and creatures to begin their chore of resurrection, whose smell does not resemble the animal itself, but its waste. The scat of formaldehyde is the thing itself—always stinking fro…
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