Gracie's Gap

Today Grace's friend Ava was concerned about Grace's baby teeth. She came to me in confidence and asked in a low voice, "You know that space in Grace's teeth? Is another tooth gonna grow there?" What she said was funny, but even funnier was the position of her hand to her own mouth and the furrow of her own brow, as if she felt the pain that Grace must feel having her teeth so painfully far apart.