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lost my two front teeth in a fall this past fall put two shiny new Washington quarters under my pillow to get replacements Daddy told me that his dental plan will replace only up to one Roosevelt in a twelve month period if at all he said that this condition was a result of a conspiracy in our modern society driven by corrupt, exploiting and greedy tooth fairies in expensive blue suits and white coats driving BMWs and Mercedes drinking lattes and cappuccinos under the banners of humanity, fairness and truth and the stars and stripes cheating on their spouses putting their assets in accounts outside the reach of the IRS and who would do in their mother for a Roosevelt

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