I'm not sure when it happened.My chubby-cheeked oldest daughter, whose once-round face was framed by brown ringlets, is no more. Standing in her place is a lean, string bean of an older child, her face oblong, a sharp heart-shape jawline that mimics my own, or at least mimics the one I had 30 pounds ago.When she smiles, there's the gleam of colored rubber bands and hardware. It wasn't that long ago that it seemed the tooth fairy was visiting our house weekly and that two Christmases ago [...]
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