Dr Cole suspects this could help explain not only why the lonely are iller, but how, in evolutionary terms, this odd state of affairs has come about.

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Not only because they might get lonely but to preserve their status as well.

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Lonely hearts, were not only left without that much fantasized love connection, they had less money in their pockets too.

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Saudi Arabia, by contrast, is stranded on one of those lonely clumps of products that seem only distantly related to anything else.

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During his career, Ronald Reagan passed through a thousand crowded places, but there was only one person, he said, who could make him lonely by just leaving the room.

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But if you linger long enough to see the entourages pass and hear the trash talk subside, boxing reveals itself to be a lonely sport men left unaccompanied, armed only with their training and their determination to push forward.

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