What Getting My Teeth Fixed Taught Me About Being Broke

Juliane Bergmann
8 min readMar 25, 2022

For one: being broke made me more greedy, not more generous

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The endodontist is carrying on a conversation with me while he has both hands and several sharp tools in my mouth to scrape out the black, smelly, infected gunk inside one of the four root channels the previous guy missed.

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Juliane Bergmann

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