TEETH & CHIARA

Chiara hates to lose anything. Her confused and amused dad advised her to stop talking, every day she was effectively ‘losing’ thousands of words. As a child at the hairdressers she would have the floor swept and collect a handful of her cut hair to take home. As each of her milk teeth fell out, she would place them under a glass to be collected by ‘topolino’, Italy’s tooth fairy. For each tooth she would get 1000 lire but she never surrendered the tooth to the little mouse. The oldest tooth in her collection is 18 years old, visiting the dentist recently he found that she still has one milk tooth yet to lose.

18 Mar 2012