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Fairies and Stings

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Last week as we were getting gas before piano lessons, Hollyn and Kieran alerted me to the fact Kieran' tooth had just become loose. (He'd been trying to get his seatbelt with his mouth, per Hollyn's encouragement.) I turned around and saw blood coming out of his mouth and it did indeed look quite loose.  It was the one that had been broken in half vertically several years ago and miraculously was neither dead nor caused him any pain. But it wasn't as stable as it would have been. I couldn't investigate from the front seat, but because of the bleeding and not knowing if it's history should make me concerned at all, I called Dad's office to ask about popping in after our lessons. Once settled at the piano teacher's house, I checked out his tooth. It was VERY wiggly, clearly could come out now, but Kieran didn't want to go for the idea of me pulling it out myself. So we went ahead to Dad's office on our way home. Kieran sat wide-eyed in th...