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My father's been dead for seven years and my mother still smells his cigar,etc. Memories are a powerful thing. Meanwhile, I HATE CNN's coverage of this.

Hi, cyborg-- I know what you are talking about. About a year after my first wife died, I went into her closet, where I hadn't gone since cleaning her belongings out, and opened a drawer I thought I had emptied.

In it, lost, forgotten, and overlooked in the great purge of her things was a splint
( she was handicapped, this is what she wore on her right hand to enable her to write )
... and for a few seconds, I smelled her smell... and then it was gone, forever.

I cannot recall a more deeply wonderful, or hurtful, moment in my life.

For a few seconds, I had her back, and lost her again, for ever, and ever.

Far as CNN goes, the last time I really watched it was for the pictures as 9-11 happened. They are good at pictures, and little else.