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MY TREASURE
It's called Gap tooth! Gap tooth!!😬. I would always yell out to people insisting on “open teeth”. At least my Secondary School English teacher helped me with a much better name. The open in the “open teeth” gives me this rat teeth identity. I can't stand being attributed to a rat please. Thank you.

Growing up with two teeth which was meant to line side by side now widely separated all in the name of gap tooth trait gave me so much taunt that sometimes I wished I never had any. I got the name open-teeth from my hommies. Sometimes I wondered why I couldn't have mine just the normal way.
Must it be this big and obvious? Why should my so called God given treasure (ebumputa ụwa) bring so much taunt and sorrows to me?😥 He should never have given me any, besides I can't remember asking for one.
As if it was a punishment to me, I couldn't hide it. Except I'll resolve not to open my mouth for the rest of my life. I wouldn't have to neither talk nor laugh. Once it shows itself, I would always receive the sarcastic compliment that follows,
“Hey, Look at that, Ezeogu?",

Nawaoooooo, this kind open teeth.
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