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In the tenth and final story of “The Faces of Poverty in Prison” by Rossana Ruggiero and Matteo Pernaselci (EDB), the protagonist is pale and emaciated, corroded by leukemia and by a strong and longed-for feeling towards a person, who has never been able to live. In the Clinical Center where he is hospitalized. When asked: “What do you hope for?”, he replies that “the hope is that this person is well. I hope to meet him one day and give him the testament of love that he has not yet received, to love him in the freedom that I have never experienced”.