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Hunter Professor Jonathan Kalb Shares His Personal Experiences of Struggling to Smile

December 18, 2018
Jonathan Kalb

Jonathan Kalb, professor of theater at Hunter College, spent nearly three years trying to re-gain facial mobility after developing what he believed to be a temporary bout of Bell's Palsy. In an interview for PBS WNPR, he opens up about his inability to smile and how it affected his mental health.

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