Publishing date: May 15, 2021 • 7 hours ago • 5 minute read • A woman offers “Free Hugs” at the corner of Yonge Street and Dundas Street in Toronto amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Sept. 3, 2020. Photo by Peter J Thompson/Postmedia
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When Stevi Stephens was 5 years old, her grandmother bent down for a hug, and Stephens wondered if stepping on her foot would make her stop.
As a baby, her mother told her, Stephens cried when anyone held her; later, as a married woman, she used to get up and change sides of the bed multiple times each night when her husband would scoot over in his sleep to put an arm around her. “He was like a heat-seeking missile,” she says.
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