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The context of the question is the lyrics of a song 『小さな手のひら』by Chara. The
very first two verses of the song begins with,

> **あわせて** あんな風にちゃんと
>
> 抱いて 抱いて 抱いてちょうだい

I am confused on the significance of あわせて in this instance. The best
interpretation I have is to understand あわせて as "also," as in "Also, please
give me a hug (in that way)." However, this does not make much sense to begin
the sentence with "also." I was thinking maybe あわせて could also mean "according
to (something)" in this instance. But I'm not sure if that's even
grammatically correct. Any ideas?
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あわせて at the beginning of a sentence
According to my intuition, 併せて ("besides", "also") is very unlikely because
it's a fairly stiff word usually found in formal business letters and such.

This あわせて can be interpreted both as (手のひらを)合わせて ("please put the hands
together") and (あなたに)会わせて ("please let me see you"), but apparently there is
no clue that tells us which interpretation is correct. I feel the lyricist
intentionally left it in hiragana so that it has a double meaning. In the
latter half of [the song](https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/4686/lyrics/I039102/),
there is also こうかい written in hiragana, which can be interpreted both as 後悔
and 航海.
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