And I just started hugging you really hard.

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They get the job done without hugging you.

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So you hugging him on back, you know?

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If Google Glass makes you look as cool as the guys in that Tumblr, that embrace is about as likely to happen as you hugging a Segway.

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It turns out that hormones, body chemicals and even genes agree that hugging is good for you.

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It is a structural British problem, too: only on our side of the English Channel can you be a tree-hugging centrist and Eurosceptic.

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You might even see women hugging a pair of Louboutins tightly next to their bosoms or a few caressing the fur detailing on a pair of Manolo Blahnik boots.

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When a former head of America's Central Intelligence Agency allies himself with tree-hugging greens that his outfit would once have suspected of subversion, you know something is up.

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