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tooth.” I thought this might be a good time to get back to the lesson, but the children weren’t ready yet. One of the little girls insisted she had heard a friend of hers say she got eight quarters for each of her teeth. I said that maybe it was harder for that little girl to lose her teeth, so she needed more. One of the children had to tell us all about how their dog got hit by a car and, though it lived, it got a whole bunch of teeth knocked out. “And,” he finished triumphantly, “it didn’t get any quarters at all.” I was quick to point out that a dog wouldn’t really know what to do with a quarter anyway, so the dog tooth fairy would probably bring bones. I now saw a way to turn back to the lesson, “I have a story about a dog. Do you want to hear it?” They said they did, so I made up a story about a boy who promised his Mother that if he could get a puppy, he would take care of it. “But one night, he was busy playing with his friends, and he forgot. After he went to bed, the puppy started to cry because it was hungry. When the 2