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What it means to be ‘touch starved’
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According to research, people's health can suffer when they do not experience enough physical contact.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: VANESSA SABA/NYTIMES
Christina Caron
NEW YORK – Author Allora Dannon, a 35-year-old who lives in Rochester, New York, longed for physical touch for much of her adult life.
As a “romantic late bloomer” who did not begin dating until she was 32, she said she ached for someone to hold her. Not a meaningless brush with another body, she said, but the type of touch that had intention behind it.
