¹     Lana sat next to Grandma. She enjoyed looking at the old photo album. "Who is this?" she asked, pointing at a picture. It was of a small girl with a wide smile. She had a big gap in her front teeth.
 
²     "That is your mother when she was about your age. We thought her front teeth would never come in," said Grandma.
 
³     Lana laughed. "She looks funny with those teeth missing."
 
⁴     "Yes, she did," smiled Grandma.
 
⁵     "Did the tooth fairy take her teeth too?" asked Lana.
 
⁶     "We liked to pretend she did," said Grandma. "She would put the tooth under her pillow and go to sleep. The next morning there would be a quarter in its place."
 
⁷     "What really happened to the tooth?" asked Lana.
 
⁸     "Well," said Grandma. "Maybe I shouldn't tell you this, but I kept them."
 
⁹     "You did?" asked Lana. "Why?"

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