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I'm a 50-year-old single woman never married because I choose to date losers.

I thought my new boyfriend would be different, but he is not.

I've been with him for nine months and everything was fine until he offered to get our teeth

done.

He said we would do that instead of buying Christmas

presents for each other this year. His friend is a cosmetic dentist that just got licensed

to practice at age 58. That should have been a red flag, but he and my boyfriend had been friends

since they were kids. The dentist offered to hook us up on the price if we referred our other friends to him for veneers.

My boyfriend gave him the deposit for both of us.

I had a first visit with him in his very shady looking office.

It was clean, so I said I trust the process.

He poked around in my mouth with sharp tools, and then he said my service would be more expensive because I needed a lot more work than he expected.

I felt like it was a scam, and I told my boyfriend that I didn't trust him.

My boyfriend told him that he does trust the guy, and he's going through with getting his teeth done.

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