“…When he takes an assignment to write an article about the modern loneliness epidemic, he realizes just how common it is to be a middle-aged loner: almost fifty million Americans over the age of forty-five, especially men, suffer from chronic loneliness, which the surgeon general has declared one of the nation's 'greatest pathologies,' worse than
smoking, obesity, or heart disease in increasing a person's risk for premature death…”
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