Fun Facts

• Suzanne LaFleur’s hometown is Natick, Massachusetts.

• Suzanne was a competitive swimmer for many years. Her strokes were sprint freestyle with some butterfly on the side. Her favorite events were the 50 and 100 yard freestyle, and the 200 and 400 freestyle relays.

• Pineapples grow on the ground, not in trees.

• Suzanne used to love finding stuff at the beach, though her mother was exasperated that she always wanted to lug home a bucket of sandy rocks. While she mostly kicked the habit, Suzanne recently found a round white rock the size of her fist that she was pretty sure looked like a dragon’s egg, so she took that home (it has yet to hatch).

• In the middle ages, it was considered very rude to scratch your head at the dinner table.

• For middle and high school, Suzanne went to a small Catholic girls' school called Montrose School. In the fall and spring, all the students wore green plaid kilts, and in the winter they wore red plaid wool skirts. Always, they wore bright red sweaters.

• Plastic sporks are rather awkward utensils.

• Suzanne has two sisters and a brother. Her siblings have a range of pets, from betta fish to snakes to birds to kitty cats.

• Cheddar is the best kind of cheese (while this statement seems like an opinion and therefore something that does not belong on a list of facts, if phrased definitively enough, many opinions can be mistaken for facts—see the statement regarding sporks above).

• Suzanne loves to travel. She has been to Spain, Finland, Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland, Mexico, France and Italy. Within the United States, Suzanne has traveled from Maine to Maui, having visited 25 out of 50 states. She hopes to visit them all.