1. Meet a person in Sweden in an informal social context. Housewarming parties are a good and commonly recurring example.
2. Say your name once and allow them to say theirs. Repeat process with every single person in the group, even though everyone heard your name the first time. Optional hand shake, single pump. Men and women shake hands too, by the way.
3. Enjoy social occasion (also optional).
4. When you leave, hug any person you talked to for more than five minutes. They are now a Hugging Friend Forever (HFF). Wait while everyone else hugs everyone else too. This may take a while if several people are leaving the party at once.
5. Hug your Hugging Friend every single time you see them again in any vaguely social context. In fact, pretty much in any context.
6. And then hug them goodbye each time too.
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