What Your Tongue Says

  [492 words] You know that every human being has a unique fingerprint, but did you realize that each person also has his or her own unique tongue print? According to published reports, scientists have discovered that just as no two people have the same fingerprint, so each one of us can–theoretically–also be identified by our own unique tongue print! Now, the scientific report didn’t say how the researchers had convinced their subjects to lick that ink pad, and I’m certainly not going to volunteer for the research project, so I suppose I’ll just have to take their word for it. But it did remind me of an episode that happened in my own life, many years ago. Back in 1979, when I was attending Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California, I experienced a toothache. Since I didn’t know any of the local dentists, I dropped by the school’s medical office,…