Marcus knew she was making up truths. Evangeline was the only one what got some schoolin’ but she said things that weren’t possibly right. She come back up the hill today tellin’ everybody that teeth was just more bones. Marcus didn’t think that was true for everyone. Some people, like Luther George couldn’t ever possibly have bones as soft as their teeth. If his bones rotted out the way his teeth did they might as well stick him in the corn field, ugly as he was. Marcus didn’t believe that there were folks what got money from old milk teeth either. His sister only wanted to help yank out his loose tooth ’cause she was plannin’ on hexin’ him or something. Make him her yard slave for chores most likely. There was definitely no one in that town would give money for an old tooth.
8 min in the kitchen, 4.25.13
source of inspiration: nephew’s loose tooth
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