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Tag: Loneliness
The Family Photo
Throughout my childhood, my sisters and I were photographed a lot. When we were little – my sisters pre-school, I was in kindergarten only because my mom couldn’t handle three small children at once – mom took a photography course. Being a young mom with three restless kids, no support network, and little money, she …
Alone in a Crowded Room
I have what I think of a very Lake Wobegon love for my nieces and nephews: each is strong, good looking, and above average in their own way. One of them, the eldest, is in college now - or was until Covid and will return after - and has been writing for her college paper. …
A Life of Loneliness
After I was born, my next sister was born three years later, followed by my youngest sister 18 months after that. Because they were so close together in age, it always felt, when I was growing up, that it was them against me. They shared a room. My mother often dressed them alike. And, until …
Belonging at Work
There have been a lot of articles recently about a growing epidemic, a disease that can’t be cured with a pill or an operation, loneliness. Evidence points to social media as a prominent cause. It was bad enough, ten years ago, to be flooded with images that you couldn’t hope to measure up to: impossibly …
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