Breaks for water and cuddling are mandatory, and puppies are never on camera for more than 20 minutes at a time.

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"Look at me, I'm a size 2, " she says on a daytime cable TV commercial, skipping along a beach in a bikini, smooching her husband on a footbridge and cuddling her baby at a picnic.

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I'm glad I have such a flexible workplace and a supervisor who understands that I'll get everything done at the end of the day although my work concentration might get broken up from time to time with cleaning up spilled cereal, reading a story that she just has to hear, and cuddling if she has a gloomy day.

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Recently, while my wife and I spent the sunrise hours cuddling and joking with our kids, I heard the vibration of an incoming email.

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One of the last scenes in the movie Superbad features Jonah Hill and Michael Cera cuddling.

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Apart from the cuddling and brushing, I often go check on them at night before I go to sleep.

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