Reply #44: I know two women with Bell's palsy and it is quite obvious

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that something "is wrong" with their faces. Having first known one of them, I knew what was wrong with the other when I met her. I also remember reading a novel in which the main character develops Bell's palsy and think I must have read there that it is most common in women over a certain age (fifty?). One woman I know developed it in her twenties following childbirth. The other woman is over fifty and I've never asked her when she developed it.

I suppose it may occur in more limited forms, but it wouldn't have occurred to me to think "Bell's palsy" while watching Bush* in the debates. "Smart ass frat boy" is my usual diagnosis of him, from the first time I ever saw his smirking countenance.