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'I'm Isolated and Heartbroken'

Feeling your truest desires can be soothing when you subtract the shame.

Heather Havrilesky
Dec 23, 2020
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Untitled (1951) by Gertrude Abercrombie

Dear Polly,

I'm alone and mostly always have been, and the pandemic feels like it's been an indictment of all my life choices. Help?

I was an only child and slow to come to the social world and though now as an adult I have a million friends and people who love me, I've never really been able to sustain a relationshi…

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