“In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.”

— Amy Goodman

Whom the Bell's Palsy Tolls http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071030_for_whom_the_bells_palsy_tolls/For (referring to her fall 2007 bout of Bell's Palsy).

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