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lonely

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In fact they found that the lonely planet's hunger had grown stronger over time, consuming over six billion tonnes of material per second!

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I just always thought, “Oh, I’ll be on that smallest part of the bell-shaped curve forever and I’ll probably be kind of lonely there. And that’s just what it is in this lifetime.”

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"Being a new mum is one of the loneliest times, because you're sort of in this insular bubble," she says.

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But here’s the thing that keeps me up at night: We needed a generation to tell us they’re lonely.

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About a third of Americans report that they are lonely at least some of the time, though women tend to reach out more often to friends or loved ones when they feel that way.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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