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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Can friendship go to HUGGING?
Message-ID: <1306@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 00:23:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 00:23:02 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jul-85 03:54:30 EDT
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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> Hugs, hug parties, propriety of hugs, relationship between hugs and
> dirty deeds, asking before giving hugs, gaaa.
> 
> -- 
> Oded Feingold				{decvax, harvard}!mitvax!oaf

I have a comment or two to make about the liberal giving out of
hugs. 

My current SO and I both are givers of hugs to old friends. However,
there was one incident that stands out in my mind...

...as we were returning from someplace or another, we ran into
a friend (not necessary an old friend, and of the opposite gender)
of my SO's. A hug between them insued, initiated not by my SO, but
by her friend. Social mores meant that she had to return the hug.
I felt VERY uncomfortable, and, as I found out, so did she.

...a hug is fine for a warm feeling between friends now and then,
but there is a time and place for everything...use a little 
common sense and take your surroundings into account.


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                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
                               ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo

 
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