Did you know that after eating, you need to wait half an hour to brush your teeth? And that after brushing your teeth, you need to wait another 30 minutes to drink water? That is a lot of time spent in order to preserve the enamel that protects our teeth.

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I love drinking water after brushing my teeth. The taste of water (usually undrinkable) becomes as good as when we drink water after being thirsty for a long period of time. But, according to “science”, this delightful habit will only destroy the strong-as-titanium bones that natural selection took so many generations to create.

Yet again, drinking water after cleaning my teeth is just one more mistake that I made to destroy my life. I gained weight because I could not handle being ignored by a man that I used to think I loved and by another man who I thought was my friend. Now I can’t walk. I don’t have a shower and need to wash my hair in a bow on the balcony.

One bad decision after another, but, in my defence, I didn’t know about the damage to tooth enamel until last month.

What to do now? How do I make an income for myself after months of being naive in thinking that writing books would bring me easy money? People kept saying “write books, it’s important to preserve our history”, but why did no one bother to tell me this was the worst way to receive a payment for your services? – the internet and all the lies that come with it are exhausting.

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Anne Rios – Brazilian girl writing about Brazilian things

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