gentleman caller

…and while my daughter plays in the tub, there’s a sudden wave of men’s cologne — acrid and sour — that passes over me. My throat closes, I am overcome with a coughing fit.

Inexplicable. My wife does not wear perfume. I do not wear cologne.

It lingers for a number of minutes there in the bathroom before slowly dissipating.


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