A Divine (*) Being, noting the suffering in the Human Realm caused by the Meat Plague (**) keeping people from sharing Hugs and such, took up a Mission.

She resolved to collect all the Hugs, Cuddles and similar that could not be shared, for fear of also sharing disease. She wanted to preserve them for delivery at a safer time. She flitted from place to place, south to north, east to west, and all places between. Each Cuddle, handshake and such, each Hug, She absorbed the squeeze into Herself.

Being Divine, She was able to reach into the Past, collecting un-shared Hugs and Cuddles from the start of the Plague. This filled Her with great sadness, as some could never be delivered in this Realm, because one or more of the participants had died.

As She continued, She became more and more weary, feeling heavier and heavier, and she seemed to be moving ever more slowly. Nonetheless, She persevered. Another Divine being, noting Her Mission and condition, became concerned for our Heroine, and intervened: “With all the hugging and squeezing you are absorbing … you need to stop. The sad and lonely humans have very nearly squeezed You into what they call neutron-star density, from which you cannot recover.”

Seeing this to be true, She very reluctantly had to abandon Her collection Mission.

This sadly has left us humans to muddle along on our own.

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(*) This is a >story<. Please recast it to suit your own metaphysics.

(**) Meat-Plague: Some 70% of the diseases we get from animals, are because we messed with them. Usually by eating them.