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What is Ma's Tooth
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Ma has some bad teeth and one of them falls out a short time before Ma and Jack escape. Jack takes the tooth with him when they escape and he holds onto it for days afterward. He sometimes even sucks on it as a way of comforting himself when he and Ma are separated. For Jack, the tooth is a small piece of Ma that he can hang onto and he has no idea that it's really not an acceptable memento.