LOOSE ENDS: All I want for Christmas

“All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” is the name of an old, familiar song of the season. It was composed during wartime (1944), which might explain the reason the songwriter stuck to the one gift request, as well as an impossible gift wish for Santa, or parents for that matter. Front teeth appear when children are six or seven usually, and unless a kid has his front teeth knocked out, they…