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  "path": "/2026/05/08/loneliness-forever/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T18:00:02.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.themarginalian.org",
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  "textContent": "Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), but die alone; we spend our lives islanded in our one and only human experience — in these particular bodies and minds and circumstances drawn from the cosmic lottery — amid the immense ocean of time and chance teeming with all possible experience. Everything of beauty and substance that we make — every poem, every painting, every friendship — is an outstretched hand reaching out from one loneliness to another, reaching into the mute mouth… read article",
  "title": "3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever"
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