After student can't find lost tooth, principal writes letter to Tooth Fairy explaining everything

A baby tooth in a child's hand.
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Principal Curt Angeli wanted to make sure that the Tooth Fairy didn't skip one of his students who literally lost a tooth on the playground, so he grabbed his official letterhead and wrote a note explaining the whole situation.

Angeli is principal of Gillett Elementary School in Gillett, Wisconsin, and earlier this month, a first grade student realized during recess that his loose tooth had fallen out. The only problem is, the boy couldn't find it anywhere, and he was worried the Tooth Fairy wouldn't leave him any money if he didn't have the tooth. That's when Angeli stepped in, and crafted a note for the Tooth Fairy, explaining that "despite the valiant efforts of an intrepid search team, we were unable to recover the tooth."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.