{"id":882,"date":"2020-03-21T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=882"},"modified":"2020-04-30T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:51:00","slug":"the-tooth-fairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/the-tooth-fairy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tooth Fairy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was eight years old when I learned about tooth fairies. My sister was six. It was her tooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were living in Egypt at that time. Lebanon was in the middle of its civil war; my father was stationed in Saudi Arabia, but we couldn\u2019t join him yet. So, we lived in Cairo with my young mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day my sister lost her first tooth, we were extremely excited to see what the tooth fairy would bring. But I was cynical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How could there exist these magical creatures that we don\u2019t see? And will they really come in the night to take a tooth? I suspected that if anything happened it would be my mother\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I spent the entire day watching my mother. She wouldn\u2019t leave my sight a single minute. I didn\u2019t want her to sneak anything past me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At bedtime, I pretended to be asleep just to watch the door and see if my mom would come into the room to replace the tooth (by now under my sister\u2019s pillow) with a gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I was only eight. I eventually fell asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next morning as soon as I opened my eyes, I ran to my sister\u2019s bed and woke her up to check under her pillow. And there it was, true as day, a Barbie doll for my sister!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes. Since I had hawkishly kept an eye on my mother, and since I was so sure she hadn\u2019t come into the room, there was only one logical explanation left for my eight-year-old brain: The tooth fairy is real!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My sister was screaming with joy, unboxing her full of the excitement of her years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I jumped up and down, wide-eyed with realization that magic was real. \u201cTooth fairies are real, mama!\u201d I was shouting to my mom. She smiled and patted my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Mother\u2019s Day to my mom, who went all the way to protect our childish sense of magic and mystery back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And to every mother who is doing the same today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was eight years old when I learned about tooth fairies. My sister was six. It was her tooth. We were living in Egypt at that time. Lebanon was in the middle of its civil war; my father was stationed in Saudi Arabia, but we couldn\u2019t join him yet. So, we lived in Cairo with … <\/p>\n

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