Can you believe this?

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I heard the most bizarre story today but we were assured it was true. We went to the funeral of a lass I went to school with. She was always the life of any party, always had a joke and loved life. A truly lovely lady. Her son spoke of how they never had much money and his mother was always buying things on hire purchase then be unable to keep up the payments and the items would be repossessed, or items were removed from the house by debt collectors. Here is the bizarre part. A debt collector came to the door and there was nothing of value left for him to take. He said he would take her false teeth. She persuaded him to just take one set. Seeing as people saw her top set when she smiled, she gave him the bottom set. Some years later, she was at the markets and picked up a set that her very nicely much to the amazement of her dentist. I know things were very different in the late 60s but I’ve never heard quite such a strange story. My mother had all her teeth taken out to save her new husband the expense but that was back in the 1930s. The photo is of my sister, brother and a friend on my sister’s school pony.