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It is a micro-gesture that acting coach Susan Batson once called "the most expensive piece of blocking in television history." Carmela doesn't raise her hands to protect her face. She reaches down, grabs the leather strap of her oversized Prada (or perhaps a knock-off from the mall—the show leaves it ambiguous), and squeezes . carmela clutch slap

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