Toothless Wonder

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A couple weeks ago, Mimi mentioned to her father and me that she had a loose tooth. We didn’t believe her, so she jiggled it with her tongue – “See?”
“Don’t do that,” snapped her father. “Don’t ever wiggle it again.” Then he turned to me, “This isn’t supposed to happen until like fifth grade, right?”
“At least fifth,” I agreed.
But Mimi insisted that most of the other kids in her kindergarten class had already lost a tooth.
“Nope. Too soon,” we answered in unison.
Then we stuck our fingers in our ears and squeezed our eyes shut – lalalalalalala. We can’t hear you. You’ll be five forever. You’ll stay tiny and wear little socks and fly like supergirl until we’re old and senile and don’t know any better. Starting kindergarten AND losing your first tooth in two weeks time – what’s your hurry cutetoot?