Famous Writers Discuss Flossing

What does it mean to floss?

Illustration by author.

Gabriel García Marquez

Many years later, as I faced the oral surgeon, I was to remember that distant afternoon when my father took me to discover floss. At that time the pharmacy was a store of three aisles, built along a glistening river where fluoride flowed, crystallized, and shone like the edges of an ice cube…