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We should list all the positive divisors of $36$ and count them. By trial and error, the divisors of $36$ are found to be $1,2,3,4,6,9,12,18,36$, for a total of $9$. However, $1$ and $2$ can't be equal to $N+2$ for a POSITIVE integer N, so the number of possibilities is $\boxed{7}$.