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MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times
Crystal Burbine of Gloucester, mother of a five-month-old baby, practices a message move on her own face before trying it on her daughter recently during an infant massage class at Pathways for Children in Gloucester. The course was intended in part to help parents and caregivers feel a deeper sense of empathy for, and form a closer bond with, their babies.

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