A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly non-infective.

It helps when she's doing non-Susany stuff, like bowling and getting close with Lucy, but she was an extroverted doppel-Susan away from the lanes.

Eventually, through this struggle, Khomeini made an important innovation in Shi'i law, which helps transform the Shi'i approach to jurisprudence toward a position close to that of the Sunnis. I call it the sunnization of Shi'i jurisprudence.

It takes an afternoon or two for the locals to know you are back so that they can drop in for some gup-shup.