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haven’t hugged her.” My colleagues looked at each

other.

“It’s no use to swear. The fact is that you have

hugged me! If you are a man, you should have the

guts to admit that you have!”

I was not only a coward but I was also a fool. I

was slow of tongue and clumsy of speech. At that

moment, I made a big mistake. I decided to run away

to avoid her. But this gave people the impression that

I was afraid of her and that I was afraid that she had

exposed the fact. That meant that I was admitting

that I had really hugged her.

After I ran out of the office, I was told by my

colleagues later that she sat down by my desk and

began to weep. She wept so sadly that many of my

colleagues began to feel sympathetic towards her.

They consoled her. She then stood up and took a box

of fried fish from her bag and put it on the desk. She

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