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I don’t engage in the act of hugging very often. It’s just something I could never bring myself to enjoy in the past, and so perhaps more out of habit than anything else, it’s something I still don’t do very often now.

When I was growing up, one of the things I always used to notice when other, more normal-sized people hugged each other, was how much more easily the...