I have to add to this. I was abot to use a teachable moment the other day at school. I was reading a math to test to soem of my special ed. student, they are 8th graders, and one of them asked me where i was from. They said that I had a cool accent. It made me laugh a little. I told those girls that there is a good reason why I have an accent, and I told them that if they wanted to know they could ask me after class. Both of the girls came up to me and asked me. I told them that I had part of my tongue cut off in April due to cancer. They seemed amazed because they had never heard of tongue cancer, but wanted to know more about it. I loved that they thought i had a cool accent. It brightened my day.