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He often wore wire-rimmed glasses, and his jaw jutted forward, as if clenched.

The retired aerospace engineer, who lives in Sierra Madre, did about four reps before his teeth clenched, his legs trembled and he let out short puffs of air through pursed lips.

As he was moved into the ambulance “his jaw suddenly started to clench down”, she said.

Dark feelings and internal conflicts characterize these first episodes, which are full of raised voices, clenched jaws and steely stares.

Around a cut-out clenched fist installed above the square after youth protests in 2019, there are blankets, mattresses and tents made of whatever else people could find.