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Here is something a
little pleasanter.

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This is about-- this
is called The Hug.

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And I guess it's
not only about a hug

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but about middle-aged love.

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When you're middle
aged, what else

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do you have to write about?

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The Hug.

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It was your birthday.

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We had drunk and dined half of
the night with our old friend,

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who'd showed us, in
the end, to a bed

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I reached in one drunk stride.

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Already, I lay snug and
drowsy with the wine,

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dozed on one side.

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I dozed.

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I slept.

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My sleep broke on a hug
suddenly from behind.

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In which, the full lengths
of our bodies pressed.

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Your instep to my heel.

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My shoulder blades
against your chest.

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It was not sex.

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But I could feel
the whole strength

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of your body set
or braced to mine

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and locking me to you,
as if we were still

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22, when our grand passion
had not yet become familial.

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My quick sleep had deleted all
of intervening time and place.

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I only knew the stay of your
secure, firm, dry embrace.

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We get dried up when we're old.

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But at least there can be some
qualitated-- some benefits

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in dryness, I guess.

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