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Dear John and Roman

99% Invisible

CHAPTER

The Benefits of Crying Older

Our taste buds get older and they get less sensitive. You are more likely, in general, to enjoy stronger flavors as you get older because those taste buds just aren't fire in like they used to. That explains why if you told me 15 years ago that a significant portion of my free time would be spent with my mother growing peppers from seed,. And then over the next six months processing them into hot sauce, I would have been like, what? My mom lives next door to me.

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