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Sharlene Matharu
London
UK
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She was born, sticky and screaming, doused with her mother's sweat and insides. Clean and warm in her blanket she smelled of milk and snow. Schooldays were cinnamon and iced buns that sat warm in the village bakery. In her teens she was scented with imported musk under nylon stockings, the music hall smoke lying unwashed in her hair. At her daughter's wedding she wore roses, their thin, heavy aroma crushing against the ivory bodice as she hugged her goodbye. Now she slips under the teastained duvet with the powdery echo of lavender and lilies on her thin wrinkled skin. 
 		  
     
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