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What does the quote “Saturday night smells of biscuits and burning hair” mean

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This sentence aludes to Grandma Georgiana's hair night. The night that she transforms her kitchen into a beauty parlor. The kitchen still smells like a kitchen (biscuits), but it also smells like burning hair..... the odor that accompanies hair straightening.

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