> Here's the link. The page is mainly about something else, but it's documented and claims pretty much what we've been guessing, that it's a chemical connection. I think they cover it in the second paragraph.
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> Mi "not so much an official finder of things, as much as simply tired of all of us trying to guess" ke

Interesting... both the articles you and koalamom linked to say that there's a difference between emotional tears and onion-tears in the hormones which are released. It would seem, then, that I *shouldn't* feel the same kind of calm after chopping an onion (my eyes are very onion-sensitive, by the way). But I do. I wonder why.

The stress-hormone stuff is neat though. I didn't know that. Funny how, when I'm looking for the answer to one question, the answers to two or three others pop up along the way.

Lire"sounds like something a Sage would say in a cheesy fantasy story"lyn