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The wisdom of my horse dentist

24 June 2023

9:00 AM

24 June 2023

9:00 AM

The horse dentist put down his medieval-looking implements and pinned me to the spot with a look.

‘Those guys,’ he said, reaching into the yawning jaws of the builder boyfriend’s black and white cob to check the back teeth he had just filed, ‘load horses and take them from England to Ireland and from Ireland to England all day, every day, so don’t make a fuss.

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