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Article: I want a confident smile.(Lifestyle)(Reprint)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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"Dude, you need to fix your teeth." That's what Booth, one of my closest college friends a no-nonsense fashion critic whose job it is to note the aesthetically nasty, whose nature it is to name it aloudslurred at me late one night last year. Hideous, right?
Actually, I was thrilled. Seriously. (And not just because I was punch-drunk.) I was sick of dithering worried that I was frivolously buying into some aging prom-queen vanity over whether or not to get braces. This was objective confirmation, in all its gimlet-eyed harshness, that I was justified in plunking down more than two grand (insurance would cover the other $2000) on myself, when there was a ...