• ArtieShaw@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My mom saved all of our baby teeth. They’re in a box in a hidden drawer in her dresser. I found them 35 years ago when we were doing a cleanout/reorganization and I happened to open up a box full of teeth.

    “Mom? Are these teeth? Why are you saving teeth?”

    “Those are your teeth. Yours and your brother’s.”

    “But why are you keeping teeth?”

    I can’t throw away part of my children.

    It would sound sweet if it weren’t also more than a bit Bates Hotel.

    I bet they’re still there. The teeth. She’s 80 now. I wonder if my brother knows they’re there. I wonder who will inherit the teeth.