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Bradshaw3

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2. This snippet conflates aloneness and loneliness

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Thu Dec 13, 2018, 12:56 AM

Dec 2018

They may often correlate but not always. Some prefer being alone and don't suffer from loneliness. And having children or a spouse doesn't always guarantee the kind of positive human interactions that obviate loneliness. A lot of children have little to do with their older parents.

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I LOVE living alone with my dog. BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #1

It is fine, until and unless you are sick or injured and have no one to call question everything Dec 2018 #3

My neighbor told me that she doesn't want to live to "old age" BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #8

This snippet conflates aloneness and loneliness Bradshaw3 Dec 2018 #2

Indeed, this was some of the examples that they gave question everything Dec 2018 #5

I could write a lot more on this subject Bradshaw3 Dec 2018 #7

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What the hell is happening to this once great nation ? Pepsidog Dec 2018 #9