Strange Strangers

Photo by Oleg Sergeichik on Unsplash

All Alice wanted was a hug from the man standing in front of her on her subway ride back home, one of her habitual thoughts that emerged when she scanned her brain on the smooth subway ride. A consistent thought. One day she courageously asked the man standing in front of her, a stranger, to hug her. The man, a stranger, spontaneously gave her a big warm hug with a big smile. What she did was plain and simple. She asked for a simple hug. The stranger…