One day I looked around the classroom and finally faced reality. That’s when my weight started to bother me.,Teen Fiction: Of Dentists and Diets,One day I looked around the classroom and finally faced reality. That’s when my weight started to bother me.
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“Ee al o at?” asked Shira with her mouth wide open. I peered inside. What was I looking at again?
It was ninth grade and one of my friends was showing me the inside of her mouth during recess. “So the dentist said…” Shira continued with a bunch of jumble I didn’t really understand then “basically I’m going to have to go back weekly and get a whole host of treatments for the next two or three years! And the treatments kiiiiiiill!”
“Oy poor you!” I said.
“You must not really get it” Shira commented at my reaction to her pain.
“I don’t” I admitted. “I mean… the last time I went to the dentist was like… two years ago?” I couldn’t actually remember the last time I was at the dentist.
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