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Why do some people become hermits?

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The Importance of Silence

Before moving here, sarah tried out being a hermit for forty days and forty nights. She lived completely alone on the isle of sky, off the west coast of scotland. The very common effect of silence is hearing. Auditory hallucinations are usually not accompanied by visial ones. Food just tasteda it wasn't it tasted particularly fabulous in any mysterious sense. It just tasted more so that porridge tasted of porridge. Th barts were fabulous. They weren't just some warm water as comf luxurious experience,. sir, it got cold. You got incredibly, incredibly cold, incredibly wet.

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