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You can feel that there are two rods touching your cheeks, but have difficulty feeling two rods if you are touched with them on your calves. this is because

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You are able to feel two rods touching your cheeks, but have a much more difficult time feeling those two rods touching your calves because the touch receptors that are found in the cheeks are much more densely packed making the area much more sensitive to touch that that of the calves
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