"Kokum was shorter than all of her daughters, though she didn’t look it, and she was all teeth. Her real teeth rotted out as a kid, and when she got her dentures, they were too big and too white for her mouth...She used to call them a weapon. 'Stronger than regular teeth,' she would say. 'Can bite right through bone. Don’t ask me how I know.'”

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