jmcquown wrote:
[snip] ... I have seen people hug
> when they have done something nice for someone else. People don't have
> to be involved in a sexual relationship to give someone a quick hug.
>
> Jill

This reserved northerner actually hugged someone yesterday. She is a
nice book dealer, whom I have intersected with a few times over the
years. She has pancreatic cancer. My mom died of it, as did a man I
knew, so I know what this means.