It took me three weeks to pick a username, but I settled on TitaniumCup because my treasured titanium cup a real object I own whose backstory weaves together Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, and the United States.

I'm new to Wikipedia editing but not to my love of encyclopedias. I vividly remember buying the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia at the grocery store with my mom, one volume at a time. When I was given a school assignment to write a paper about a country of my choice, the "I" volume was newest to my bookshelf, and so I chose Iceland. When choosing a new bed in my teen years, I picked the headboard with a built-in bookshelf so that I could more easily show off my prized volumes.

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