Friend used their remote machine learning setup to find the next person
   similar to the people who had burned their home.
   On Facebook, their account page had a profile picture that was just
   words: "I told you I do not want a hug!".  Friend sent them a Facebook
   message, saying "I'm so sorry I'm still communicating so poorly; how do
   I refrain from hugging you?"
   Friend asked around the community.  When asked about this person,
   everyone asked would suddenly say, "I really don't like hugging!" and
   curtly turn away, sometimes denying service or offering thinly-veiled
   death threats or sudden physical violence.
   While being beaten by what seems a small anti-hug-gang, friend curls
   up, starts punching themselves too, and offers the clothes off their
   back and personal slavery as an expression of care and trust.  The few
   strong people stop harming them.
   "Uhhhh it's really not that big.  Why didn't you make it right?  The
   person whose photo you're carting around doesn't want to hug you."