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\"Joseph\"<\/a> …but we have a milestone. Haven’t been through this in a while. It’s been loose for a long time, of course, and this past weekend, I offered to just pull it out, but he recoiled in horror. I don’t blame him. But this evening he just appeared in front of me, holding that tiny white thing, and proudly said, "I pulled it out myself!" It must have been really <\/em>loose, because I didn’t see a speck of blood anywhere. I can only hope that his pride in pulling his own tooth out doesn’t transform into what Christopher’s did – a rather odd interest in pulling other <\/em>people’s teeth out. I did tell him several times during his pre-adolescence he should consider dentistry, but evidently editing sports video turned out to be more fun.<\/p>\n

But from what he tells me, in reality, that’s not too much different from pulling teeth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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