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3. It is fine, until and unless you are sick or injured and have no one to call

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 13, 2018, 12:31 AM

Dec 2018

to help you. The story gave some sad examples.

Individuals whose friends and family members disappeared and who are too sick or tired to get out, even to church.

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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

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