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From: Reggie Sadler <>
Subject: Re: From Dr. Godbey's Diaries - 2/11/1912
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:02:53 -0600


my mother remembered having one pulled that way, but she wasn't laughing.

Karen Pritchett wrote:

> She hollered, but I kept pulling untill I yanked it
> > out.
> >
> I laughed until I cried. When I was little, my grandfather (who was
> born in 1880) always offered to pull our loose teeth with his pliers.
> We usually took him up on it, because he gave us a dollar for letting
> him do the pulling, plus we got to keep the tooth for the tooth fairy.
> His standard comment when reaching for the tooth was "Now don't holler,
> I'll yank as fast as I can..."
>
> Karen Pritchett

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