Those Nervous Chills of the Soul

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The nervous chills come sometimes.

Sometimes I have an idea what has brought them on. A piece of bad news. A hostile tweet on my social media. An unsuccessful audition that leads to fears I’ll never work again. Needing to be held, have my hair stroked gently and reassured that I’m doing great and everything is going to be alright. The desperate yearning to be touched — just a tender, chaste brush of the…