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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Just how far can friendship go?
Message-ID: <330@azure.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 04:58:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 04:58:54 1985
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In article <2625@ihuxf.UUCP> features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) writes:
>	So what do we do?  We get involved in bad relationships.  We
>take all sorts of abuse.  We do things that, on the surface, are
>self-destructive.  We can put up with an almighty great amount
>of bad to get a little good.  
>	It's so much easier to find folks who, like oneself, might
>be afraid of touching.  It's often easiest to just say, "I don't
>touch, whatever the provocation." (I've heard prostitutes say that
>one aspect of their work is just holding men, because the men can
>not get that nurturing in any other way.)  It's a risk to hug.
>It's also very rewarding.
>	Let's risk.  I'm open for hugs, and I (unlike Lucy 
>in Peanuts) don't charge 5 cents.
>
>aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features

Anyone for a hug party? 

Life,
  Love,
    Laughter,
      huga-huga-huga,
        Chris Andersen