"He told me he always felt very lonely and busking was his way of helping him feel less so, " she said.

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But Mr Blair, along with the Liberal Democrat leader, Paddy Ashdown (see article), has always been pretty lonely in that.

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"He always complained of being lonely, " said Guntur Hernawan, head of the internal medicine division at Moewardi Hospital in Solo.

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My long work nights and weekends always ended with a lonely run, a bourbon or two, or a phone call to someone I didn't really listen to.

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But it is always a possibility that the real lonely hearts are the pet owners themselves.

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Born in 1887 near Manchester, he was a frugal, humble, humorous man, who was lonely in spirit rather than always solitary in fact.

ECONOMIST: Singular visions

In the end, he might well decide that the simplest path is the lonely one that some of his advisers always preferred: that America simply does the job itself.

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