These tiny groups that make us feel loved and safe and part of something even on our loneliest nights when we stumble home to our computers—partnerless, tired, awake.

因为它们我们才感觉到爱，还有极度的信赖，即使在那些最孤独的深夜，当我们孤身一人踉踉跄跄地走回宿舍，再打开电脑奋斗的时候——无依无靠，满身疲劳，却清醒无比。

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These tiny groups that make us feel loved and safe and part of something even on our loneliest nights when we stumble home to our computers partnerless, tired, awake.

因为它们我们才感觉到爱，还有极度的信赖，即使在那些最孤独的深夜，当我们孤身一人踉踉跄跄地走回宿舍，再打开电脑奋斗的时候候无依无靠，满身疲劳，却清醒无比。

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However, Susanne Sorenson, from the Alzheimer's Society, had some words of cheer for partnerless people.

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Another McKinsey study in 2007 revealed that 54% of the senior women executives surveyed were childless compared with 29% of the men (and a third were single, nearly double the proportion of partnerless men).

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter