Lorna lost her first two teeth on the same night. They have been loose for about a month and finally came out on Wednesday night while Mommy had her book club over. A whole table full of moms ready to ooh and aah over lost teeth was enough to get them both out. Lorna decided that she wasn’t ready to part with them quite yet, so we put a notice on the door for the tooth fairy to wait one more night. Then another night.
Pasang, who visiting from Nepal, found this tooth fairy custom intriguing but I failed to warn him about the teeth being saved in the cup on the table. Pasang, being the kind and helpful houseguest, rounded up all the dishes to wash them. Lorna was beside herself – wailing and howling! Pasang was trying to comfort her and saying sorry sorry over and over as I was searching around with my hand in the garbage disposal, wondering how to dismantle the thing.
Actually, it turns out that the tooth fairy had to take the teeth … before the cup was washed because there was a baby girl in Zimbabwe who needed a set of matching teeth to start eating. The tooth fairy left two gold dollars and in her note, promised that she could keep the next tooth she lost.
Although the tooth fairy exonerated Pasang in her note, Lorna still had a hard time warming up to him for the rest of the visit…
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