I never knew her real name and it is quite likely that she did have one, though I never heard her called anything but Gold Teeth. She did, indeed have gold teeth. She had sixteen of them. She had married early and she had married well, and shortly after her marriage she exchanged her perfectly sound teeth for gold ones, to announce to the world that her husband was a man of substance.
- From "My Aunt Gold Teeth" from A Flag on the Island by V.S. Naipaul
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