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  "path": "/2026/03/12/barry-lopez-place-loneliness/",
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  "textContent": "\"Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a belief in the therapeutic dimensions of a relationship with place.\"",
  "title": "Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life"
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