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My Mother’s Teeth

From the January 2025 Print Edition

My mother’s teeth were kept in a bottlemarked with the sign of the cross. I usedto shake it till they’d rattle,interest and childish horror fused.They weren’t her teeth. They were mine.My brothers’ and my sisters’, too.The one’s we’d shed, as sharks do,pearls we’d surrendered to . . . . Continue Reading »