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in which pictures of them appeared,
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and you could see them almost running down the wards,
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as they were visiting the patients,
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and behind them they had their hands
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you can imagine them trotting with this gesture,
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which is a gesture to ward off the evil eye
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in Italian culture.
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So, this seemed rather strange
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in the world's seventh industrial power.
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In a sense I had, then, this subliminal message
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that came from an earlier experience.
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But there I was, a decade or so later,