Here are six things an adult child can do to keep our aging parents safer when they get lonely.
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.
He described some fairly lonely nights when they opened a decade ago.
After all, it's a less lonely life when you know that your friends have something to say about everything you do.
It's a lonely world when you've no storefronts to call your own.
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Seeing her asleep, he sometimes thought that he loved her, loved her brightness in these last years of his life, when he had become so lonely.
I'll remember that long, lonely walk by Adam Price when I walk to the polls on Thursday.
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For the first time I was able to grasp how lonely Clark must have been when he was growing up.
We mostly bought things we could use to make somewhat tasty meals without power: Cold cuts, cheese, hamburger buns (there was one lonely package on the shelves when I got to it), pickles.
"I also use it as a reminder, when I'm climbing those long lonely steep canyons on the bike, that the pain and suffering that I'm enduring is pittance and short-lived compared to what others are experiencing in their battle against cancer, " Hoffman, 42, said in an iReport.
But when you withdraw into yourself you start to feel lonely, upset, ashamed.
We characterize the modern cities sometimes as a place of alienation and anomie and the faceless lonely crowd and so on, but when an emergency like this happens and people are pushed against the extremes, you see extraordinary acts of solidarity and kindness between strangers.
Tom Hall of the travel guide publisher, Lonely Planet, said travel companies would put in place contingency plans when they knew the strike dates, such as scheduling flying from alternative airports.
Those who would cling to outdated stereotypes of transpeople as sad, lonely, misguided, freakish and broken see more and more examples of people who bloom when they find the strength, and the opportunity, to become authentic.
It was a lonely time. (Laughter.) We actually lived in the same building when we first arrived in Washington.
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And that's how it plays out, as Mann drinks a lonely Guinness while it's still light out and awkwardly hooks up with a male acquaintance when it's not.
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