The Girl Who Smelled Pink - Issue 58: Self

My tongue is orange!" my 2-year-old daughter shrieked after licking a dollop of clear hand sanitizer. "Mommy, my ear feels orange," she moaned when an earache struck. It's orange," she whined from inside her snowsuit when a scratchy tag in her new white glove rubbed uncomfortably against her wrist. As her vocabulary blossomed, she started to associate colors with scents. "What smells pink?" (Dryer exhaust puffing out of a neighbor's basement vent.) Anyone who has spent time around toddlers knows they say some strange things.