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Dr Emily - Lonely? You're Not Alone

The Imperfects

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The Shame of Being Alone

I remember a feeling of one of my best mates got married on New Year's Eve, along like years and years and years ago. And everyone was watching the fireworks and I was standing by myself. Does that resonate at all? Yeah. It's kind of like, it's sort of like being the one without a chair at the, when the music stops in musical chairs, the odd one out that doesn't belong in the group anymore,. But it's yeah. Also, but you don't feel shameful for feeling thirsty, but I feel, but when people joke like my friends joke that I'm not good at being alone, that I feel that that's a shameful thing. Like that

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