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I'm actually fine with that. There's nothing worse than unsolicited hugs from people you don't know well. One time I got dragged along to an Al-Anon meeting and everybody there were great big enormous older ladies and at the end they ALL hugged us. I thought I was going to be smothered and die in a cloud of flowery rayon and thick perfume. I suppose there are worse ways to go but in the meantime I eschew this hugging thing of which you speak.