With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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As I get older, people do come up to me just to give me a hug.
Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s.
Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
It is people's hearts that move the age.
I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'
I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
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