"Adriana" is a playful, school serious girl who hugs, pokes, slightly hits, and rubs on unexpectedly.
Not a hail-fellow-well-met hug, but a serious bloodline hug, and I felt for the first time in 27 years something I had forgotten existed.
When even Warren Buffett announces disappointing earnings and talks about a recession, you know our financial system is in serious need of some feel-good hugs and drugs.
Sometimes, when I'm watching them, I want to give them a hug and say, "It's not that serious.
"That people would Google me and say, hey, this isn't a serious journalist, he's just some guy who got hugged by Christine Hamilton, and they'd throw me out".
Occasionally, it is doing the one-armed hug or the one-shoulder lean -- less serious but still taking up undemocratic amounts of pole space.
She also hugged me a lot, and at times she sat me down for serious talks: "Your mother spends all your father's money".
Don't let them be very emotional, or hug them if they are, as that might lead them to think that you are not serious about ending this friendship.
Tom Potokar, consultant burns and plastic surgeon, said: "People may give their pet a hug and the dog may snap because it is too hot and the resulting bites can be quite serious.
To be happy, we require large serious things (money, freedom, love), but we need a lot of semi-insultingly little things too (a good diet, hugs, rest).
