the color of stink

I cannot decide on the color of stink, it must be a dark brown, with shades of black and repulsion. But if you cannot smell it, can you still assign it a color? 

The story of grandma's lake starts with a Duke student who was losing smell, as a result of a degenerative condition that was affecting his olfactory nerves. He was from Missouri and drove up there, and asked his grandmother for money to help with his treatment. The old lady refused, and in his madness he decided to kill her. He then put her in the back or trunk of his car and drove during the hot month of August, from Missouri, all the way to Carolina, and Chapel Hill when he dumped her in the lake. He then took the car to be cleaned, and the poor men could smell the stink he could not, and turned him in. 

The plans to have a restaurant floating in the middle up the lake had to be abandoned, because nobody wanted to come dine and relax on top of grandma's lake. 

Few know this story today, and those who do must certainly hope that forgiveness or at least forgetting have washed the horrid aspects related to our story, and peace reigns the lake. And they must be right because nature will bring peace and its own order back, inevitably though bit by bit, with the years. 


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