A MOVING EXPERIENCE: SHINGLE WELL SHOCK

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I was living in Italy when a friend stateside uttered the world “shingles.

Shingles?

Wasn’t that something from an 19thth century Dickensonian novel? So old-fashioned: surely no one gets shingles in this day and age.

Except that my friend had gotten it, twice, and emphasized how unpleasant it was.