On the bright side, Plan B did inspire the excellent NokiaPlanS.com, which is sure to bring a smile to even the loneliest hearts in Espoo.

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Just getting near Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre was an adventure a grueling multiday journey down the unpaved Ruta 40, one of the loneliest roads on earth.

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The concern was, however, that once the umbilical was disconnected in the capsule, that Baumgartner would lose communications altogether, making him officially the loneliest man on (or off, rather) the planet.

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The loneliest tears I cry, my heart never sings.

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Russ Feingold of Wisconsin used to vie with him for the title of loneliest dissident, as measured by the number of times they voted against the majority in divisions of 99 to one.

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Shades of Clint Eastwood. (who is the ultimate in cool.) But also someone who would be fun in that largest, longest and loneliest part of America that takes so long to drive across that we call the West.

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It's the loneliest job in the world.

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True enough, adults come to understand how Christmas and Hanukkah and even rowdy old New Year's Eve can exacerbate 20 kinds of stress, how inequalities abound in society despite our charitable impulses, how at times you can feel loneliest in the middle of celebration.

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