What did I do with my money from the tooth fairy?
I still have my wisdom teeth, but they don’t seem to help with memory. For all I know, I never got money from the tooth fairy.
But Carina and Ariana Dinu did. And they’re donating it to a charity bike ride—to benefit Ukrainian children.
Their ride was dedicated Iryna Filkina, a Ukrainian mother who was shot to death while she rode her bike home from work. Carina and Ariana collectively rode 53 miles: a mile for each year Iryna had lived before she was murdered.
Yes, you read that right. Ten-year-old Ariana and seven-year-old Carina (Can you come up with better names?) gave their tooth fairy money to Ukrainian children. That was “seed money,” if you will: It was the first donation to the Go Fund Me page they started.
Actually, their ride wasn’t organized for the purpose: They rode as part of the Ignite Women’s Bike Event. And their fund-raising didn’t start with Ignite: a week earlier, they’d pedaled 45 miles in El Tour de Mesa. By then, they’d collected about $1000, mostly from friends and family. El Tour has not only grown the amount of money they raised but expanded their donor bases.
What was I doing at seven or ten years old? I can remember some of it, but not what I did with my tooth fairy money, if I got any. But said fairy, I am sure, would be proud of Ariana and Carina Dinu.
