Embracesby William Ramos

I just decided now that I prefer hugs better than kisses. If I go clinical about it, Pete knows how much millions of germs reside in one’s mouth. {Did you know that the number of species of germs that resides in a mouth outnumbers the population of people in the world? Statistics shows… yeah. Promise!} <BR><BR>Kisses may be tingly to the sensation but you can’t shut off your nostrils to smell the awful halitosis. No matter how hunk-a-burnin’-love your partner looks like, noses don’t lie. Besides, it’s great to kiss, but who can guarantee that the one you kiss is always toothbrush fresh when you kiss. Or you? It just takes away the romantic illusion. Yeah, even actors who he laid in the romantic scenes in the movies would brush their teeth or chew breath mints before the take. But that doesn’t happen in real life, does it? <BR><BR>Bet! I will treat you do the best of garlic chicken dish and onion rings of Burger King but then you will have to like, LovaPalooza a Piolo Pascual-looker that’s like three times as garlicky and onion-y smelling upon opening his mouth. Would you dare? For like five minutes, French Kissing?! O, French fries na lang?! Yikes!!! Dare? <BR><BR>Hugs, or what I fondly want to prefer it called,… embraces, is better. It’s warm, cuddly, spontaneous, doesn’t have to smell that good, but of course it’s better if no B.O. lingers on, and it’s so like,…um… wholesome? To me the idea of two hearts touching (and kissing, for that matter) as two bosoms meet in a fierce embrace speak more evocative words than no any passionate kiss or poetry will do. And you can hug, er, embrace anybody, anytime! It’s the best and quick expression of love to the ones you do care about. It doesn’t have to be your lover or someone you are romantic with. It’s universal. <BR><BR>And yes… No danger of germs exchanging.