“The scent of these tobacco flowers is so strong that it chases me around the garden. I ask Amy whether she is experiencing something similar, and she confirms that she, too, can feel the scent growing so thick that it seems it might, at any minute, become visible, hanging in the air around us.”—Leigh Ann Henion, “Moondance”

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