But while creating that bucket list, my pain, aloneness, and fears were replaced with the gift of forgetting.

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"Qaat chewing helps me to bear the aloneness of my everyday life, " he says.

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And the people who suffer most from aloneness are those who require the most care to begin with.

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Putnam, in other words, saw public institutions as a casualty of the same forces of individuation driving modern aloneness.

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And, rather than consigning individuals to suffer in their solitude, aloneness may come at a cost to the community.

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Plus, recent demographic shifts suggest that aloneness, far from fading out in our connected age, is on its way in.

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Does aloneness deserve a less untoward image?

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