My adult son walked to the table this morning for breakfast and as he did he opened his arms to me. I ____1____ my arms too and gave him a big hug just like I do every morning. And this made me think of a beautiful ____2____.
My Italian nanny had been a big ____3____ when I was a boy, but my Mom had grown up in a more ____4____ household. She hugged me sometimes ____5____ less often as I grew into my teenage years. My Dad also seemed to ____6____ the gender roles of the day back then and didn’t hug me much as I got ____7____. By the time I was a teenager then, except for my nanny, I didn’t hug anyone.
When I was sixteen I went ____8____ a trip to a college in the Mid-West with a group of boys. And on our way there we also ____9____ by an old Monastery(寺院). As we entered we were greeted there by the largest monk I had ever ____10____. He was over six and a half feet tall with huge ____11____ and a booming voice. And as he greeted us he gave each one of us a huge hug. When my own ____12____ came I felt scared but stepped in and hugged him back. I felt ____13____ in my heart as he ____14____ his loving-kindness. I felt peace and joy in my ____15____ as well. It was ____16____.
Later I began to ____17____ why I had ever stopped giving and receiving hugs when they brought so much ____18____. When my own children were ____19____ then I decided to never stop hugging them and telling them I ____20____ them, no matter how big they grew or how old they got.
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