Parents may marvel when their child gets his or her first tooth, but kids marvel when they lose their first tooth.
The Tooth Fairy was a magical creature for me when I was a kid.
It seemed strange that my tooth was to be collected by a fairy. What she did with all those teeth was never quite answered by my parents. But in the early seventies, a quarter could go a long way in the dime store in town, so I didn’t let it bother me so much. Continue reading