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âWinteringâ Offers Hopeful Perspective on Embracing Difficult Times
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A few weeks ago, The Financial Times published a sobering essay on an urgent subject: loneliness in the time of Covid. Written by the paperâs Chicago correspondent, Claire Bushey, it described what it has felt like to live by yourself in this miserable year.
âLonely as a cloud?â she wrote. âI am as lonely as an iceberg, an egg, a half carafe of wine. I am lonely as the body is hungry three times a day, hollowed again and again by an ache that does not ease except with the sustenance of connection.â