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The hug sickness

Monday 7 th March 2011

 Kalleforamargashopa forfomurto was a very smart girl. She had many positive things. she was polite, she was strong, she was helpful, she had creativity and so on. She liked hugging but she could control it and she would hug her mother when she got home. She was very bright, she always looked at the positive. Like the time when she lost her favorite doll she did cry but she ended up looking at the positive.
“I know I have lost my doll but crying won’t help. I have to look at the bright side. Now that I won’t have my doll I might start paying attention to other things going around apart from her,” That’s the kind of thing she always said.
But then one day, something horrible happened. Her mother was forgetting stuff. Like the day it was cold and a storm was outside during the winter her mum said,
“Hey henry, let’s go to the beach!” You should have seen her wearing those sunglasses and sandals and the dress she had on. Everything was going to far and she went to the hospital. Kally and her dad were outside the door on a bench. Kally wasn’t wearing a smile today, she was wearing a frown. You could tell she was worried. When the doctor came out he said,
“She has cancer, she won’t survive this one.” Then Kally’s dad couldn’t stop asking questions like:
“Are you sure she didn’t just faint and forget everything and that she is fine?” And the doctor would always answer:
“No she seriously has it.” And the next day.... She was dead.


Just after a few days strangely Kally got sick. Her father was desperate and couldn’t stand any more deaths. He sent her to a very clever doctor which did indeed find out what was wrong.
“Did she have a gigantic relationship with her mother?” he asked.
“They were very close together,” Kally’s dad answered.
“I mean was there something she could only do with her,” the doctor asked.
“Not any that I know,” her dad answered
“So tell me child, what hurts?” the doctor asked Kally.
“My chest, my tummy and my arms,” she moaned.
“I see,” the doctor said. He stood up, he bended and touched the floor, he stood up again, and sat down. He then kept seated for a minute.
“Do you like hugging, Kally?” he asked.
“I would always would come home and hug my mum, because I’d had no hugs during the day,” Kally answered nearly unable to speak. The doctor stood up and did his routine again.
“Kally, I know what you have,” the doctor said after his one minute pause. “ You miss hugs. Your body is used to hugs and will never get unused to it. The only thing that can cure you is a hug.”

Five years later when Kally was eleven years old everything was over. Though Kally still dreamt about mum she often forgot about her. Kally’s classmates didn’t know what had happened to her mother. Actually they didn’t care. Nobody in the class cared about Kally’s problems. In the class next door Kally had a friend called Sally. They weren't best friends but they got along well. Sally was Maria’s best friend; a selfish girl from Kally’s class. They three usually played together even if Maria hated Kally.
One day her dad had forgot to hug her in the morning which meant that she had to hug somebody in school 2 times if she didn’t want to be sick. Kally managed to hug Sally with some difficulty but she didn’t let Kally hug her more.
“Maria, I need a hug,” she said.
“Why the heck do you want a hug they are so stupid!!!” Maria responded.
“ A hug always makes you feel better,” Sally told Maria.
“But Kally doesn’t need a hug, or does she?” Maria teased Kally.
Kally didn’t speak for the rest of the day. She wouldn’t answer teachers when they asked a question, and she wouldn’t participate in class. Kallly got sick for the second time of her life and was changed school. Sally, nor Maria, nor the entire school knew what had happened, and didn’t want to know.