How can someone with SO much beauty inside of her AND surrounding her AND be beautiful ALL at the same time?…….I don’t know. However, going through her pictures you will see ALL 3 blended into one capture of her at her moment she chooses to share. The mystery about her is as intense as the blue skies, skin, sunsets … Read more

How can someone with SO much beauty inside of her AND surrounding her AND be beautiful ALL at the same time?…….I don’t know. However, going through her pictures you will see ALL 3 blended into one capture of her at her moment she chooses to share. The mystery about her is as intense as the blue skies, skin, sunsets that she captures and just as warm as her wonderful smile.

When Doctor Cris Guedes stepped off the train into the small town of Santo Leon, no one in our town had ever seen a dentist. The people who were standing in the street when she stepped off remembered that her skin wasn’t so much white as it was glowing, that her clothes were dry and well pressed even on that humid summ… Read more

When Doctor Cris Guedes stepped off the train into the small town of Santo Leon, no one in our town had ever seen a dentist. The people who were standing in the street when she stepped off remembered that her skin wasn’t so much white as it was glowing, that her clothes were dry and well pressed even on that humid summer day while all of us were drenched in sweat, and that she was the most beautiful woman that they had ever seen. Stories spread that she floated four inches in the air, but those of us who were there would tell you that four inches was an exaggeration. We stared in wonder at all the shiny metal tools that she carried in her little black bag. Most of us hadn’t seen anything like them since the traveling Arabs had last passed through. She told us that she had come to take care of everyone’s teeth and that she would stay until she had seen everyone in the town. Within a few days word had spread to nearby towns and the street in front of her makeshift office in the cantina was lined with people, some from neighboring towns, who would later tell their children about the day they sat in her chair. Even though she worked from sunrise to sunset, the line outside her office never seemed to subside. Stories of the beautiful dentist had reached the ear of the local rebel commander. Colonel Tadeo Rodrigo had been a bandit earlier in life, but had realized that he could combine his profession of robbery with his anti-authority political ideals and gain a form of respect and fame that had eluded him. He called himself colonel, and with a few members of his gang, he pitched in with the rebels. Half of his take now went to the treasury of the rebels, but he was a hero of the revolution. One the Colonel’s molars had been bothering him for days and one of his sergeants suggested that he go see the dentist in Santo Leon. In fact, several of the soldiers had been deserting to see the dentist, returning with stories of an angel who pulled and straightened teeth in a small town where everyone had teeth that were so white that the town could be seen at night from miles away because of the moonlight that reflected off their teeth. The Colonel set out at once with several of his best men. Their plan was to capture the beautiful dentist. She would be his wife and provide dental care for the rebels. They traveled day and night through the jungle, and they made the seven day journey in four days. When they finally reached the town of Santo Leon, they were just in time to see the miracle. After she had taken care of the last patient, the angels came down in a burst of light and carried her away into heaven, taking all of her shiny, sterilized instruments with her. The war raged on for seventeen more pointless years, and everywhere the colonel went he asked people if they had seen a dentist who glowed and walked without touching the ground, but there was never a woman matching that description. Later on, when the colonel was an old man arguing with the government for his promised pension, he would touch the spot where his molar had been and think of Santa Cris Guedes, our Lady of the Teeth.