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    Compassion and a Cannoli

    NOVEMBER 2, 2011 8:27PM

    By Dorri Olds


    Topics: loneliness, waitress, cafe, greenwich village, food/drink

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 2551 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Hoarders

    SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 4:59PM

    By Erica K


    Topics: rosh hashanah, loss, friendship, loneliness, hurricane, animal hoarders, hoarders

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 882 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Taking House

    APRIL 2, 2011 4:33PM

    By Elizabeth Coyne


    Topics: open call, spring cleaning, memoir, student apartment, house cleaning, designer, waitress, divorce, foreclosure, loss, break up, loneliness

    • Editor's Pick
    • 52 Ratings
    • 3086 Views
    • 58 Comments
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    Cinema for the Indisposed

    NOVEMBER 29, 2010 8:53PM

    By Monsieur Chariot


    Topics: tt, relationships, romance, sex, top hat, gentlemen, film reviews, it's complicated (2010), far from the madding crowd (1967), edge of darkness (2010), last year at marienbad (1961), cinema, invalid, sick, housebound, illness, loneliness, movie reviews, movies, comedy, meryl streep, alec baldwin, steve martin, nancy meyers, alain resnais, alain robbe-grillet, delphine seyrig, giorgio albertazzi, sacha pitoeff, john schelsinger, thomas hardy, julie christie, peter finch, alan bates, terence stamp, mel gibson, ray winstone, danny huston, oksana grigorieva

    • Editor's Pick
    • 33 Ratings
    • 1232 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    Suicide Hotline

    AUGUST 30, 2010 1:15AM

    By ladyslipper


    Topics: indifference, loneliness, aloneness, suicidal feelings

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 2412 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    OS Book Review: THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS

    MARCH 30, 2010 12:34AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: fiction, review, italian fiction, paolo giordano, books, anorexia, mental illness, loneliness

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 2479 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    The Religion of Celebrity

    FEBRUARY 26, 2010 1:17PM

    By Scott Christian


    Topics: celebrity, chuck klosterman, eating the dinosaur, fame, reality tv, the real world, religion, loneliness, culture, pop culture

    • Editor's Pick
    • 40 Ratings
    • 5796 Views
    • 60 Comments
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    50 years old, sober, lonely, and Christmas in a group home

    DECEMBER 22, 2009 10:44AM

    By grif -


    Topics: mopeds, addiction, clarity, hope, recovery, aa, anger, christmas, despair, loneliness, alcoholism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 2645 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Checking in on myself

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 2:45PM

    By Vac


    Topics: alcohol abuse, comic, loneliness

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    • 67 Ratings
    • 7594 Views
    • 106 Comments
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    Cinema for the Lonely

    JULY 1, 2009 8:33AM

    By Monsieur Chariot


    Topics: tt, relationships, romance, sex, top hat, gentlemen, film reviews, soupçons / the staircase (2004), mimic (1997), ma mère (2004), les revenants / they came back (2004), antonioni's l'avventura (1960), cinema, singlehood, loneliness, movie reviews, movies, comedy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 155 Ratings
    • 148103 Views
    • 168 Comments
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    This is What a Sexless Marriage Feels Like

    MAY 12, 2009 3:42PM

    By And yet


    Topics: sex, celibacy, relationship, loneliness, sexless marriage

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 3777 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Hollywood's Golden Age of the Geek

    MARCH 17, 2009 2:02PM

    By Travis D'arby


    Topics: the office, arrested development, i love you man, michael cera, paul rudd, jason segal, judd apatow, movies, introversion, friends, loner, shy, virgin, celibate, introvert, friendless, lonely, loneliness

    • Editor's Pick
    • 75 Ratings
    • 5855 Views
    • 76 Comments
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    Death Drop

    MARCH 9, 2009 8:40PM

    By Sirenita Lake


    Topics: open call, sex, death, loneliness, cough drop, heimlich

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2328 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Dying a little every day...

    NOVEMBER 17, 2008 6:19PM

    By apple guava


    Topics: decisions, uncertainty, relationships, grief, sadness, loneliness, divorce

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