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Touch growing up

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The ability to touch is one of if not the biggest sensory organ, every inch of our body can be used to feel with some spots better than others. In the book The Deepest Sense the author Constance Classen talks about how touch is more than contact with a surface but all the emotions and outside factors contribute to our feelings. One place that in my life that I think touch played a huge role for me was when I would go down to a harbor in the summer and send from morning to after night fall there hanging out. I would walk around a feel the hot sun on my skin but at the same time the cool sea breeze, every place I go now and I feel this combo of hot and cold it always reminds me of that harbor. Another way my touch was used is I use to love to go crabbing down on the docks and in the beach areas. This is another spot where another aspect of touch would be shown, when handling the crabs there was a certain place you need to grab them in order to avoid their claws. If you didn’t grab it ...