Would You Be Gillian’s Tooth fairy?
The Tooth Fairy and The Girl With A Big Heart
By Rex Harder
When the school year is about to end, Gillian Rae, my six-year-old daughter had a loose tooth. The next day, after placing the tooth under her pillow, the tooth fairy gave her a dollar. Now proud of being a ”big girl” she showed her dollar around Elizabeth Meyer school classmates and friends.
Recently, while looking for my checkbook, I found her dollar placed in a zip-lock inside my drawer. I called her ask her what she want to do with money from her tooth fairy. She answered, “hmmm….maybe we could give it to the Red Cross!” The way she said it was in a very casual manner, but the thought caught me by surprise! This maybe because of all the news of the great Midwest flood in the US where she witnessed on TV, not only the devastation and misery brought about by the calamity but also the people helping other people. And most recently, during the height of the typhoon that swept through the Philippine islands, especially the flood in Iloilo province, a place in central Philippines and the ancestral home of her mom and dad.
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