How Can You Not Know??

Happy New Year!  We are actually in the year 2011 and it is hard to believe time goes so quickly, as I am certain you all know.  So, my first question this year is -how long can you live with a person and not know he/she has false teeth?  For me it was 27 years!!  Yes, that's right!  About 6 weeks before he died, Mike had an outpatient procedure done and, of course, I was there with him!  He had been given a sedative and was woozy, but just before they took him in, a nurse brought him a little cup and told him it was for his dentures!  He gave me this hysterical look and said "You have to go now!"  So, I did and said nothing about it later, as it was obviously something he thought was important to keep secret.  Well, when he died, he had fallen backward on the garage floor and his teeth popped out.  When the firemen came, I asked them to please put them back as he did not want me to know he had them!  Since the day we moved in together, he had gone into the bathroom in the morning and came out showered, shaved, clean and teeth brushed!  The most amazing thing about it is that his children always knew, but it never came up in any conversation - even when there were quite a few drinks and a lot of teasing.  His doctor was so amazed that I did not know that, he wanted to know if I had ever seen him naked!!  I explained that it was not the same - when you started dating someone, you don't ordinarily ask if he has his own teeth!  It is ironic, though, that the saying is "Vanity, woman in your name".  Guess what, I beg to differ!  However, vanity or not; his own teeth or not, he was the perfect person for me to have spent the last 27 years with - and he has his teeth, wherever he is.  Thanks for tuning in.  Ricci