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