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Title: FREE HUGS!
Post by: clean on March 19, 2020, 09:02:20 PM
When times are hard, and the the situation is overwhelming, Please come here for your

FREE HUG!



Hugs all around! 


Feel better and reassured here!

Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: dismalist on March 19, 2020, 09:11:07 PM
There's no such thing as a free hug! :-)

Best of luck to all.
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: ergative on March 19, 2020, 11:45:56 PM
Everyone here smells like clean laundry with just a whiff of coffee and almond.

Despite everyone's six-pack abs and rock-hard biceps, the hugs are all soft and pillowy.

And somehow we've all mastered the art of a squeeze and release, which is long enough to be comforting and not so long as to be awkward.

This is a good space.
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: Vkw10 on March 20, 2020, 01:45:42 AM
I'll take you up on that hug and happily return it! With appropriate social distancing, of course.

Have a mug of cocoa and a still-warm-from-the-oven cookie, just like your favorite great aunt always offered when you'd had a bad day as a child.
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: Cheerful on March 20, 2020, 09:48:59 AM
In a pinch, grab a six-pack of TP and hug the soft rolls.

But please don't squeeze the Charmin!

: )
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: paultuttle on March 22, 2020, 02:52:37 PM
Here in the Southern USA, elderly female relatives give the "squeeze and grunt" -type hug.

It's what my mother gave me during our most recent visit in which we could come inside the house and actually touch my parents.

That was a couple of weeks ago. I'm now treasuring the memory.



So, before I get dangerously maudlin, HUGS ALL AROUND to all here!

(Everyone feels so comfy. What's up with that? Is it the abs-'n'-biceps mentioned upthread or the extra padding I suspect is closer to reality? <grin>)
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: Wahoo Redux on March 22, 2020, 03:49:13 PM
I like a hug that crescendos to a light squeeze and then ends with a pat on the back.

So here...

Hug.

Light squeeze!

Pat.

Now back to social distancing. 
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: polly_mer on March 26, 2020, 05:20:30 AM
Panda hugs all around! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz52DfoeNlM)
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: mamselle on March 26, 2020, 08:52:44 AM
Aww...thanks!

M.
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: Wahoo Redux on March 26, 2020, 05:56:05 PM
Quote from: polly_mer on March 26, 2020, 05:20:30 AM
Panda hugs all around! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz52DfoeNlM)

Everyone should have a panda cub!
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: hungry_ghost on March 26, 2020, 07:32:46 PM
Um, its pande-hugs, for the PANDEMIC
Title: Re: FREE HUGS!
Post by: mamselle on March 26, 2020, 08:00:15 PM
Owwwwww.....!!

(Well-done...)

M.