aloneness
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So this one was about some of the things that older women are facing: aloneness and loneliness and friendship and loss and family and healing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
A “sense of aloneness — of loneliness, really — is the theme that runs through Hecht’s strongest writing and through Yezzi’s biography. Yezzi is alert to it.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
In younger people, aloneness and loneliness are just two different things, Mehl said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023
By contrast, I had made peace with my aloneness after so many years, and I had even found pleasure in my independence.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2023
Not lonely, just alone—riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria—even dancing, she danced alone—and it was the aloneness that filled him with love.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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