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How to cure dentophobia: true stories and famous fudge

Karen O’Donnell came to storytelling from what might seem an unlikely place. 

Dentistry.

But she was always a rather unique dentist.

She’s known locally as the dentist who gives her patients homemade fudge. It’s not the sugar-free kind, either. It’s the sugary kind.

“It’s kind of like an annuity,” she joked recently, referring to the repeat business that could be generated if her patients consume too much of the tasty treat.

And she discovered the…

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