All tagged Joy's last tooth

“All right, kids, you know the drill,” Justin says. “Dig a small hole!”

Joy and Charlie run forward, go down on their knees, and start burrowing in the desert sand with their hands.

For the last almost three years now, they’ve come here every time Joy lost one of her teeth. Yes, they know what to do. I’ve come with them every time, but they had never let me into the world of the Tooth Fairy because I couldn’t climb the Tooth Tree at my age.

“But, Justin,” I say. “You asked us to keep the tooth. How can you keep her last tooth if we’re going to bury it?”

Justin gives me a wink and a smile then returns to look at the kids.

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Suzy smiles, “Aye aye, captain!”

“Walter Shelley, are you ready to see the Tooth Fairy?”

I try to come up with something smart to say, like ‘ready as a bird of prey descending on a dead wolf’, but I feel I’ll regret it, so I just say, “I’m ready.”

“Is the last tooth here?”

Suzy raises the small plastic jar that holds it. “You asked me to put it in a–”

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