A National Public Radio report on Japan's multiple cataclysms told the story of a desperate daughter traveling by train, taxi and on foot before finding her parents alive in front of the family home. Whereupon, she did what many of you huggy people will consider strange and repressed: "There's no hugging or kissing," the NPR report said, "just gasps of surprise and shock as she stands and bows to her parents. They bow too - the emotion of the moment palpable, even though nobody touches anyone else." My family was like that. We didn't bow, but we didn't hug much either. Most families didn't hug much in the Idaho of the mid-20th century/Bill Hall, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Do you come from an affectionate family?