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About me

Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation Administrative Assistant and Conference Coordinator
Location Ontario, Canada
Introduction I am a woman, a daughter, a daughter-in-law, a wife, a friend, a cousin, a cousin-in-law, a niece, a teacher, a reader, a writer, a feminist, a socialist, a lover of God.
Interests Reading books in coffee shops, spending time in/with my community, writing letters, watching a good film, having authentic conversations.
Favorite Movies Gladiator, Empire Records, The Lord of the Rings, American Beauty, Harry Potter, Memento, X-Men, Anchorman.
Favorite Music Adelle, Blindside, Coldplay, Copeland, Dan Mangan, Emery, Metric, Mother Mother, Mumford and Sons, Shad, Switchfoot, Tegan and Sara, The Almost, The Used, Underoath.
Favorite Books A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers), Becoming Human (Jean Vanier), Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of Destiny, Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes), Harry Potter (JK Rowling), Into the Land of the Unicorns (Bruce Coville), Payback (Margaret Atwood), The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton), The Bible, The Furious Longing of God (Brennan Manning), The Giver (Lois Lowry), The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins), The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien), The Purity Myth (Jessica Valenti), The Sexual Paradox (Susan Pinker), The Shack (William P Young), The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), The Witches (Roald Dahl).

Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?

Losing teeth involves bleeding gums --> Blood tastes like iron --> Iron and copper taste similar --> Pennies are made of copper I think.