The healing power of human hands is not to be underestimated. Think back now on all those afternoons…there you were, naked to the world under a thin sateen sheet…scent of patchouli in the air…The Wave doling out some mindless Dave Koz fluff from a small yet curiously tasteful boombox…tulips in a white vase on a small stand near the wall…meaty slabs of flesh and ten digits slowly working sinewy tissues you had no idea your body contained…

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