In the same way that a dining-room table can be terribly lonely when not in use, the garden table often finds itself a rather forlorn piece of furniture.

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Everyone is partying and you're the lonely kid in the corner who is not invited.

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Living in Shanghai, it is very difficult not to feel lonely, and that makes it possible for me to keep my character intact.

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Dr Cole suspects this could help explain not only why the lonely are iller, but how, in evolutionary terms, this odd state of affairs has come about.

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In addition, if you are not sure how long your stay will be, Lonely Planet advises asking for the maximum amount of time: three months.

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Some of them are not in a good condition as far as their health is concerned and all of them are desperately lonely, and long for association with other people.

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But look in a Lonely Planet guidebook to Asia and the country can be found listed after Mongolia, not Brunei.

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Being entrepreneurial can be lonely, especially in these days of virtual businesses, where your employees or partners are not in the same place as you are.

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Lonely hearts, were not only left without that much fantasized love connection, they had less money in their pockets too.

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But instead of rethinking the shape of the drama to suit the format, the director, Jean-Jacques Annaud, has taken a small, simplistic plot, filled a couple of lonely roles with flat performers, and marooned them in the midst of a spectacle that is not so much a movie as a demonstration.

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