Peg,
I stopped by Dawn's yesterday but she wasn't home so I told her hubby Tim about your "hug" theory. He said, he's not too sure about that.
Dawn and Frank have this little pretend flirt thing going (she jokingly calls him Frankie Baby
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) and Frank has turned into a little bit of a father figure since Howard's passing. Tim theorizes that it's Howard's own joke warning to Frank - "Hey back off, I'm still here".
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That sounds more like Howard's personality. He wouldn't have taken any of this seriously but he would have participated in the joke.