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What happens when you bite into a donut and find a tooth?

In October 2021, about sixty days before my house burned down, my husband found a tooth in his donut. I had bought a pumpkin donut for my son Noah and a chocolate donut for my husband at the Dunkin’ Donuts. Only Noah, not his brother Eli for a reason I cannot remember, was home from school that day. The tooth was a molar. “Look at this,” said my husband. The tooth, spotted with chocolate or decay or both, looked like a crown for a tiny dethroned king. “No,” I said. I took a step away. “Please tell me that’s not a tooth.” But it was a tooth. In the early afternoon sunlight Noah, horrified

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