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Rather than focusing on her academic resume, what I should have noticed was right in front of me, staring back, and blinking, bald.  Back when she’d switched schools from grade school to junior high, something about the change had caused Missy to systematically pick out all of her eyelashes.  Another similar change must have taken place sometime between high school and college, because now her eyebrows were missing too. 

Missy