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The Tooth Fairy Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Raising a skeptic
Published on May 30, 2010 by Pamela Cytrynbaum in Because I'm the Mom

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My 3rd-grade daughter yanked an unwitting tooth out a couple of days ago.

At a gathering that evening, several of my students asked her if the tooth fairy had come?

She waved them off: "Nah, my Mom ran out of cash."

 

 



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Pamela Cytrynbaum teaches at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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