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lonely

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The 77-year-old missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region, careening down a rocky slope and into the ravine near Saint-Julien-des-Points.

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She has spoken in the past about her Tourette’s syndrome, her struggles with depression and self-harm, and feeling brutally lonely on the road.

You wanted to make his final years less difficult and less lonely.

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Mr Morgan said farming could be a "lonely job" but doing things like tending to the horses left them with "big smiles" on their faces.

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Life at the St. George Reef Lighthouse — a so-called stag station where no women or children were allowed — was brutal and lonely.

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