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Rammendi di vite qualsiasi

There is a mending that does not concern things, but people: their way of looking at life and, consequently, their own life. It starts from the moment – a word, a look – in which people, especially women, who perceive themselves as marginal, peripheral, defeated by events, by others and more often by themselves, intuit that, in the same awareness of their existential defeat, is there a wire from/to rebuild with.


Maria Franco was born in Reggio Calabria in 1952. She taught for 35 years in the Nisida juvenile prison. She was among the five winners of the Italian Teacher Prize 2017 and, in 2011, she was named a Knight of Merit of the Republic by President Napolitano. Freelance journalist, she collaborates with the online journal Zoomsud and edits the blog conchigliette.blogspot.com.

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