I want you, I need you, someday I will have you. I’ve flirted with you and have even gone through the preliminaries of preparing for your invisible embrace, but something has always gotten in the way of us being together. That something tends to be money.
I am 40 years old and I dream of the day I can have you. I’ve heard arguments that 40 is too old to even bother, but I say that as long as I am alive and have teeth then it is not too late. The best part is no one will know you are there because you are invisible, but I will and eventually you will change me. Change me for the better.
You might think I want you for the sake of vanity and I won’t lie, some of it is purely superficial. Who doesn’t yearn for a bit of perfection? Who doesn’t want to have the perfect smile?
But I can live without a perfect smile. I have lived without a perfect smile and some even say that my crooked smile adds to my charm.
So yes, I want you for the obvious, the superficial, but that’s not why I need you. I need you for the not so obvious, but far more important function of eating tostadas and hard-shelled tacos. You see even though it seems like I just have one crooked front tooth, the reality is that my bite is totally wonky. My bite makes it impossible to eat a tostada or hard-shelled taco without making a mess.
It seems wrong and unfair that no matter how carefully I balance or hold the aforementioned delicacies, the moment I bring them to my mouth I will have to destroy them by basically sawing them with my front teeth. It’s not right, it’s not dignified, it’s made for really embarrassing first dates at Mexican food restaurants.
The stories I could tell of salsa stained dresses sprinkled with hard tortilla bits. No woman trying to look nice while eating delicious crunchy delicacies should have to suffer the shame I have suffered.
Now I know you are not a miracle worker. You can’t fix everything that needs fixing, but you will help. One day when finances allow, I will have you. You will give me a beautiful smile and perhaps the ability to eat tostadas and hard-shelled tacos in public.
Invisalign, you will be mine. Until them I am grateful for soft tacos and burritos.
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