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5 Mantras to Comfort You When You’re Feeling Lonely

By Megan Bruneau — 2015

Loneliness used to terrify me. I think I feared that if I felt lonely, I’d lose my mind and develop an attachment to an inanimate object or something, like Tom Hanks in Cast Away.

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