A woman with autism symptoms looks at flowers at a state-run, mental health care home care in Ruskie Piaski. — AFP
AN elderly woman leans over to smell a lush flowerbed of lavender in sprawling gardens surrounding an imposing early 20th-century palace in a pastoral corner of eastern Poland.
Slowly a smile lights up her face, erasing her previous stony expression -- she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which often renders her emotionless.
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