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Chapter 11: Smile Saver

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Smile Dentistry was in big debt. They were down in patients, and lost more and more every week. Talk was going around the whole area that it would close down soon. It was only a small dentistry, but it had been owned by the same family-the Smiles-for more than seven decades now. There were two different kinds of employees. Several of them left the business to find other jobs, or finish out college, knowing that soon, they would be out of a job anyway. The other few were the ones trying to save it. One of them was Dwayne.

A little backstory on Dwayne, first. He was kind, and well-meaning, but a little awkward, often discussing anything, and everything. Second, he had dreamed of being a dentist his entire life, ever since he got a cavity, and was determined to never get one again. Third, he was also interested in social media, posting multiple things a day, but getting hardly any views. Smile Dentistry had a social media page, but no one ever saw it, because the last time someone had posted, was two years ago. Dwayne decided to change things.

Dwayne was a big man, so when he arrived at work with a camera-that looked even smaller next to him-everyone stared.

"Watcha' got Dwayne?" Kyle, one of the younger dentists asked. Dwayne looked down into his arm, almost as if he had forgotten, but then responded.

"A camera."

"What for?" Sheila, an African-American lady who had been working there for a while, asked.

"I'm going to save this place," Dwayne responded, a determined look on his face. Michael and Lindsey both burst out laughing. They were two of the dentists about to quit.

"You think you could save this place?" Lindsey, exclaimed, "Get a life!" She was not very nice, and most people preferred having someone like Dwayne as their dentist, even if he was a little too personal.

Dwayne peered down at his feet, ashamed of even thinking he could, but then Sheila said something that gave him his spirit back.

"Let him try," she said, looking at Lindsey, "And if it works, you owe everyone an apology, and need to stay, but if it doesn't, you can leave, and do whatever you want. Deal?"

"Deal," Lindsey responded. The bet was on, and Dwayne got to work

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