I’ve been brought up on this adage and have conscientiously followed it. In fact I am known for my smile and everyone thinks I’m the original SMILEY because I find it hard not to smile. There are times when I find myself smiling to myself  when I remember something that makes me smile.

And smiling they say is instinctive so that even if you don’t want to really smile, you respond naturally to a smile with a smile when you see a smile. Much like a yawn which is equally contagious.

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But there are times when you want to smile because you are happy but you can’t like it happened to me one day. 

The day that  I happened to sink my teeth into a soft, chewy, caramel toffee.

Now I must confess that despite the fact that I am a grown woman with grown children, I still haven’t outgrown my predilection for toffees – the gooey ones that stick to your teeth. This toffee that day stuck steadfastly to my tooth so that when I tried to pull it out, I pulled out my dental fixture otherwise known as false teeth.

Imagine my horror when I saw those beautifully crafted ceramic crowns fitted come off so perfectly in the sticky toffee. 

That evening I heard some news that would have ordinarily left me grinning from ear to ear but when I saw myself in the mirror, my reflection smiled at me. I didn’t

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