I've always appreciated a nice set of choppers! I can't even relate to people with naturally perfect teeth. Or people with perfect eyes either. Or perfect skin! If natural selection applied to humans, I probably wouldn't be alive today. My weak crooked-toothed farsighted dry-skinned ancestors would have been killed off long ago.
Every time I look at pictures of myself pre-braces, I am reminded of how much orthodontia has changed my life. Okay, that's a slight exaggeration but I am pretty sure I would be a completely different person today if I still had that mangled mess of misplaced teeth in my head. My first kiss probably would have been delayed at least 10-15 years and I may not even have friends. And I wouldn't laugh as often or own mirrors.
I hated having braces for six freaking years, but it was definitely worth it. The worst part though was when they took my braces off sometime in sixth grade for a few months... just to give me a break or tease me or have an excuse to bill my parents more or something... and then - SURPRISE - put the braces back on for another two years. Which in middle school felt like a lifetime. But in the end, like I said, it was worth it.
So... thanks Mom and Dad for investing in my smile! Laaaaaaaame, I know. But for real, thank you. :)
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I love how practical you were in choosing your crushes. It's so very you.
the stuff about the braces cracks me up . . . haha, but your teeth couldn't have been THAT bad! haha
So do you still keep a diary til this day???
Shea, my teeth WERE that bad. Some day I'll show you the "before & after" pics that my orthodontist took. Maybe I'll even post them on here. But in order to do that... I'd have to find them first... and I'm thinking they're somewhere in a box in a closet back at my parents' house. Ugh. Effort.
I do still keep a diary but I don't write NEARLY as often as I used to. I probably write maybe once or twice a month... if that. But during Lent this year I wrote EVERY DAY for 40 days! I was proud of myself... but it wasn't hard for me to fall out of the habit again. :( I constantly regret not writing more often these days...
They were bad and definitely not all lined up like they are now!
See? Told you! My mom wouldn't lie. :)
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