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Loners

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2. While I'm reasonably social, I'm uncertain that I could return to

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 06:24 AM

Tuesday

sharing a home even with the closest of friends.

I liked it years ago, but once I got the taste of living alone, the alure is more or less gone.

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It's disconcerting when you live alone and then you go to visit friends. [View all] no_hypocrisy Tuesday OP

Friends and isolation are quite an oxymoron bucolic_frolic Tuesday #1

While I'm reasonably social, I'm uncertain that I could return to no_hypocrisy Tuesday #2

I'm with you on this. Cohabitation is not good for me. Walleye Tuesday #3

Ditto. Tarheel_Dem Tuesday #5

I have acquaintances; I can't truly name friends; well, maybe one. peacebuzzard Saturday #6