The long-awaited, much anticipated day for this girl finally came…                           So proud of this little girl who turned out to be much tougher and braver about being in braces for a year and a half than any of us thought. She dealt with the discomfort of them, the many canker sores that came, the wires that kept slipping off her too-small teeth, the tightenings, the adjustments, the complicated flossing, the questions from her classmates since she was the first to get them, all of it. Neither Phil or I had braces so we didn’t really know what…