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I don't need hugs, though they are nice when they're from someone with whom I have an intimate relationship. I'm mostly indifferent to them when they're from family or close female friends, but everyone else needs to back the hell off.
A hug is an expression of emotional closeness, and since I rarely feel that connection to others, hugging is awkward. I won't refuse a hug from a casual acquaintance, since doing so is more trouble than it's worth, but I will just go through the motions, rather than give a real hug when I don't mean it.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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