beautiful for months

[pondhop]

There was the time when she and her friends swam across the Hudson to New Jersey on a lark, and the time that the cosmetics factory went up in flames, "and the neighborhood smelled beautiful for months."

- Corey Kilgannon, "Born in the Basement and Never Left," a character study of 93-year-old New Yorker Eleanor Murray

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