The Ticket Collector from Belarus: a ‘heart-rending tale’

Mike Anderson and Neil Hanson delve into the early life of the prolific war criminal Anthony Sawoniuk

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The morning after the US playwright Sarah Ruhl gave birth to twins in 2010, she was told by a lactation consultant that one of her eyes looked droopy, said Heidi Moss Erickson in The Washington Post. When she looked in the mirror, she was shocked by what she saw: “The left side of my face had fallen down.”

Then in her mid-30s, Ruhl had been struck with Bell’s palsy, a “fairly common” type of paralysis caused by nerve damage to one side of the face. Bell’s is usually temporary, but sometimes it persists for years.

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