I recall my sometimes acutely painful feelings of loneliness and of longing for someone [...] I had accepted the idea that loneliness was a weakness [...] I had no answer to the pain except to tense my body against it [...] I clung to alienation as a virtue. #NathanielBranden

I recall my sometimes acutely painful feelings of loneliness and of longing for someone [...] I had accepted the idea that loneliness was a weakness [...] I had no answer to the pain except to tense my body against it [...] I clung to alienation as a virtue. #NathanielBranden

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