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The most comforting touch communicates care for the person receiving it – not just the intentions of the person offering it.
When death is looming, the warmth of a held hand can communicate deeply where words fail.
Lack of human touch can lead to greater stress, anxiety and loneliness – and that is what made the social distancing during the pandemic so hard for many.
Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb.
All of the senses have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, not because the senses have changed, but because the world has, writes a sensory historian.
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