When the Well Runs Dry: A Tale of Oral Health, Longevity, and Lost Comfort
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The Fountain: A New York Story About What Keeps Us Going
The thing about saliva is that you never think about it until it’s gone. For Leo, a second-generation bookbinder in a tiny West Village shop that smelled of dust and leather, that moment came on a Tuesday. He was painstakingly repairing the spine of a 19th-century poetry anthology when a dry, papery feeling seized his tongue. A profound, unquenchable thirst. It was the first whisper of what his doctor would later call xerostomia—a side effect of new medication, a simple drying up of the well.
