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When the ability to communicate with words is estinguished or impaired, to human beings remain gestures and facial expressions to convey their emotions, thoughts and fantasies.
This is the testimony of an extreme condition of human life, when the body is transformed, disfigured by suffering, psychic disorders or by old age, when the intellect becomes dull and the emotions get extreme.
I portraited Alessandro during the facial muscles sessions of physiotherapy, occurred in a nursing home located in Florence, Italy.
In this hosting structure, it ‘s firmly believed that a work of rehabilitation and facial mimicry exercises are fundamental in their patients in order not to let them lose the capability of handle the use of this important form of language.

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