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Monday, December 22, 2008 12:00 AM

What your loneliness is telling you

New science says being lonely speeds aging. Old philosophy says the holiday blues are a signal to examine and change your life.
By Katharine Mieszkowski

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  • Sunday, December 21, 2008 07:11 PM

    Interesting...

    At nearly 40, divorced since around 30, no kids, no real career, I have found the good fortune of 20 years of daily journals that I've arduously kept & have been going through & organizing where I've been & done. Not only myself, but family & some friends & then have been mapping out on calendars how events have unfolded. I had no idea the richness all this stuff would have, but no doubt without them, I would be incredibly lonely & despondent. I feel that I know myself & others I know with much more depth.

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