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Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Kate Spencer and I'm Dory Sheffreier and we are not experts.

We're not. We're two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

And this is a many episode where we hear from you, we share your comments and your thoughts,

and we answer your questions to the best of our ability.

That is true, but our ability is necessarily limited because we are podcast hosts.

We're not experts. We do encourage you to seek support first and foremost from a medical

and or mental health professional as needed. And you know, this is a pretty lighthearted

episode. You probably won't need to seek support elsewhere for the topics we talk about in

this episode. Although, you know what? I never know. I shouldn't say that.

Shouldn't make a assumption. I don't know. Yeah. But the reason I say that is because this is

the fragrance episode. You just like the free-tested episode. You texted me, Kate, and you were like,

we're talking about fragrances. And I was like, oh, she's excited. I am. You know, I love smells.

And this kind of came up organically because I posted a few months ago on our Instagram asking people

for like their memories of the first fragrance they ever either had or connected with and like

what that memory was. And we got so many messages. I was it was really kind of moving actually.

And it was interesting to see the connection between like scent and memory. Right.

And the way smells can evoke such intense memories even like decades later.

Now, you and I have talked about our first fragrances. And I know I can pinpoint mine as Debbie Gibson's

electric youth perfume, which I had to purchase with my own allowance money.

You you you are remember I'm incorrect me if I'm wrong. Don't remember like the first fragrance,

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