We have a confession to make.
For years my Wife and I have lied to our kids over and over again for years.
Everytime one of them lost a tooth, we told them to put it under their pillow and the tooth fairy would come and replace it with a coin.
It was normally my wife that retrieved that tooth, but sometimes this was difficult when they buried it right under the the middle of the pillow and we had to be real careful not to wake them up.
One night, we couldn’t find the tooth and a very disapointed daughter told us the next day how the tooth fairy never arrived!
My wife artfully told her a story about how the tooth fairy must have missed it because it was so well hidden, so maybe she should wrap it in a paper note to help them out and put it beside the bed.
For years we committed the perfect lie time and time again, and we would have gotten away with it (perhaps for ever?), except that we got betrayed by my wife’s sentimentality…
She always kept those teeth, and couldn’t bear to throw them away.
The day of reckoning came when the kids found them after one of Mum’s famously infrequent tidy up’s.
I guess the fable was good while it lasted…
Uncoffined 
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