Ultimately that belief falls into the same category as a superstition, like the evil eye or the tooth fairy.

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Most serious regulation-watchers would say that anyone who buys that number must also believe in the largess of the Tooth Fairy.

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"I felt like Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy, " he said.

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No, Mr. President, the tooth fairy does not pay for it.

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The question, which I (sadly) never did ask, was what my father proposed to do with the Tooth Fairy if he were ever successful in catching it.

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Joining up with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman, Jack Frost learns a few things about himself, his past, and his purpose.

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In fact, I was crying with sadness, imagining how devastated my father would have felt as a child had he been successful in trapping the Tooth Fairy.

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From his cell, Lecter helps Graham to track the savage Tooth Fairy, whose real name is Dolarhyde (Ralph Fiennes), and whose identity Graham is strangely slow to unveil.

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If only our earliest encounters with money, like getting a quarter for cleaning our room or a whole dollar from the Tooth Fairy, taught us what we would need to know about personal finance.

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Our fictional reporters the best in the business have worked hard to rectify the gender imbalance, even breaking Fictional 15 rules against folkloric characters (the Tooth Fairy appeared on the 2010 list), but the gap persists.

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