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Like Hugs? Don't Want to Be Creepy?

September 13, 2007 RSS Feed Print

As the feel-good story of the day, a Brigham Young University freshman has preliminarily broken the world record for number of hugs in an hour. Breaking the previous record of 612 made in Finland, she hugged 765 people, from 4-year-olds to grandmas to professors, the Daily Universe reports. "I had to hug some BYU professors, which was weird because I would be taking their classes soon and now I was hugging them," she said. Weird, eh? People have been arrested for less.

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