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Teeth
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Estha had slanting, sleepy eyes and his new front teeth were still uneven on the ends.
Rahel's new teeth were waiting inside her gums, like words in a pen.
It puzzled everybody that an eighteen-minute age difference could cause such a discrepancy in front-tooth timing.
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― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
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One of the bonds between Lily and me is that we both suffer with our teeth. She is twenty years my junior but we wear bridges, each of us. Mine are at the sides, hers are in front. She has lost the four upper incisors. It happened while she was still in high school, out playing golf with her father, whom she adored. The poor old guy was a lush and far too drunk to be out on a golf course that day. Without looking or given warning, he drove from the first tee and on the backswing struck his daugh
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― Henderson the Rain King
― Henderson the Rain King
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