Sheez, was it that long ago that bumper stickers asked this question in well-intentioned earnest: Have you hugged your kid today?

I suspect it was eons ago, or at least several mind-sets away, when hugs were an accepted expression of compassion and touching was encouraged as a laudable display of what makes us human and humane.

I hug, therefore I care.

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