• prettybunnys
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    2 months ago

    Apparently teeth means children who haven’t gone through teething, according to contemporary resources

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, these days we’d say “childhood ailments”. Or “death by antivaxx” as a lot of those ailments have a childhood shot associated with them these days.

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        I’d take a more pragmatic approach in that what you’re saying is totally valid and may not contradict what I am saying either.