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Hovering over me are: two mask-covered faces and one pointy metal utensil. The man is wearing a face shield like what a welder would use, but made of plastic. The woman is holding a handle of something like a small gas dispenser pipe.

The man points into my mouth. Something unexpected seems to be there. A portal? A miniature painting of the Sixtine Chapel?

The language they speak sounds as foreign as what I would say with my mouth wide open and the saliva-sucking pipe stuck into it.

One of those sentences, you never expected to be uttered.

“The shape of your tooth.”, the dentist says in English, “it’s beautiful.”

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