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Last night as my daughter was getting into her bed, I noticed her slip something under her pillow. When I asked her what she was doing, she pulled her hand out from under the pillow and showed me a tooth.Mildly surprised, I asked "did you lose a tooth... ...full story at Kyklops

from Kyklops on Fri, Nov 06 2009

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