December 1, 2007...10:30 am

Random hug request…

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On my walk home today, I was confronted by a random stranger who made an unusual request.

For the sake of sake-ness let’s call him Henry.

Henry is an international student who wanted a hug!

I was quite taken aback by this…`

Particularly as he vocalised his desperate desire to be close to a `girl’s body?’

I shook his hand instead; bidding him farewell before power-walking away, unsure if I had done the right thing… but convinced that in this day and age no-one can be trusted.

Perhaps I read too many news reports about rapists, stalkers and murderers…

Would you have hugged Henry?

Is a free hug too much to ask of a complete stranger?

Am I a horrible person for not hugging a huggless fellow human being?

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