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Fools%u2019 Journey530because she hadn%u2019t slept well the night before, she%u2019d turned off the lights, laid down to take a nap, and I simply hadn%u2019t noticed her. When Lynn realized it was me, she got up and tried to catch me, but I was already back indoors, and had gone downstairs. Rather than enter our cologne-saturated house, she rang the doorbell to get my attention. But I didn%u2019t answer, because I didn%u2019t hear the bell. Unbeknownst to her, I had temporarily removed the doorbell under the stairway to give the workers some extra room to hook up all their lines. Not understanding why I wouldn%u2019t answer the door, Lynn headed back to the garage. But she didn%u2019t have her key, which she later realized had fallen out of her pocket next to the front seat of the car. So, again, she spent the rest of the morning walking around the drizzling damp woods, this time without an umbrella. As the installers%u2019 truck drove away, I spotted her walking back toward the house. After we thoroughly aired out the house again to get rid of the cologne, we assumed it would take several days of additional airing to deal with the odor from the new plastic cases of the indoor airconditioning units. However, we were very pleasantly surprised to find they were almost completely odor-free. The next day, we gave the company, and the installers, a great on-line review. While the intense fragrance had certainly been a problem for us, we knew it wouldn%u2019t be for most people, so we didn%u2019t mention it in our evaluation. After all, it wasn%u2019t the first time visitors had stunk up our house, and it wouldn%u2019t be the last. Through experience, we had known exactly what to do, and were able to air the place out quickly with both our whole-house ventilator and our four window fans. Which was precisely why we had those four portable fans. We generally used two fans blowing fresh air in, and the other two blowing the stinky air out to clear out the house most efficiently.%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022We%u2019d lived with Lynn%u2019s chemical sensitivities for decades by now, so we knew just what to do in almost any situation. For us, coping with highly perfumed people inside our home, Lynn being