Katie Gallivan was splashing in the pool with her brother when the two finagled a way to finally get her loose tooth to fall out.
They tied a string around it and jerked it loose and just like that, the tooth sank to the bottom, lost forever.
The 7-year-old was distressed. Now how would the Tooth Fairy figure it out?
Fortunately for Katie, the pool they were at belonged to George H.W. Bush, and as they were leaving the Kennebunkport home, Bush, then in his first year as president, asked the little girl if she had had a good time.