The Lonely American

Ed Newman
4 min readFeb 12, 2019

“Loneliness… is just a drag.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“Knowing, in a deep-down sense, where you are from contributes not only to your sense of identity but to your sense of community.”
— Vance Packard, A Nation of Strangers

A number of year back I picked up a copy of the Utne to read an article called “The Lonely American.” The article began with some grave statistics, cited for you…

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Ed Newman

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