A few weeks ago, The Financial Times published a sobering essay on an urgent subject: loneliness in the time of COVID-19. Written by the paper¡¯s Chicago correspondent, Claire Bushey, it described what it has felt like to live by yourself in this miserable year.
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¡°Lonely as a cloud?¡± she wrote. ¡°I am as lonely as an iceberg, an egg, a half carafe of wine. I am lonely as the body is hungry three times a day, hollowed again and again by an ache that does not ease except with the sustenance of connection.¡±
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