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Squeeze play: How hugs may figure into health

You’ll get no argument from most people — especially on a cold winter’s night — that hugs make you feel warm inside. But can that good feeling protect your health?

Jess Garrity, left, and Pamela VanHaitsma, right, hug their friend Jamie Phillips, enter, while standing first in line to apply for a marriage license inside the City-County Building in downtown Pittsburgh. (Michael Henninger/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS)
Jess Garrity, left, and Pamela VanHaitsma, right, hug their friend Jamie Phillips, enter, while standing first in line to apply for a marriage license inside the City-County Building in downtown Pittsburgh. (Michael Henninger/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS)Read moreTNS
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