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Holding
hands may seem like an innocent gesture, but they show more
than a simple interlocking of fingers. Your hands are one of
the most essential parts of your body: you build with them,
feed with them, hold with them, touch with them, fight with
them; they are the tools of the human body. To take a hold of
another’s hand is to break from living individually. It
is to link yourself to another being, to momentarily entwine
your life with another’s, to promise, for a moment, that
you need not face the world alone. More simple, more
aesthetically naive than other forms of affection, i.e kissing,
hugging, sexing.., the act of holding hands is often
trivialized in its true implications.