Dear Humans,

My daughter and I were reading a book about global tooth traditions, and when she found out that Dominican children throw their lost teeth on the roof so a mouse can take them, she said she thought that was weird.

I told her that she puts her tooth under her pillow and waits for a fairy to come take it away. Isn’t that just as weird? She had to agree with me.

It’s easy to think what we do is normal and what other people do is strange. But if we step back and look at how people act all across the world, we see one truth: we’re all weird in very similar ways.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck