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Gray Girl

by Cynthia Kadohata
Issue #80
Winter 1999-00
The year my father’s molar disintegrated was also the year my half brother died. The two were related. “Willpower!” my father said. “I will keep my tooth from decaying.” But decay it did. Every day he’d show us his molar...

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