He screeched to the front door with his two brothers, my youngest, and shoved the plastic container holding his first lost tooth right in my face. "Mommy, I lost my tooth, I lost my tooth!" "You did?" I asked excitedly.
He had waited so long...watched his brothers each lose tooth after tooth after tooth, and he just wanted to be big like them. I remember one day recently when his older brother had lost yet another tooth. Jonah's bottom lip puckered out like he was about to cry. "Don't worry," I said…
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