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Helping The Isolated

Helping The Isolated

For years, people have thought that to help people who are lonely, you have to put them together. But the worst thing you can do for a lonely person is try to help them without asking them for help in return — a concept based on mutual aid and protection. Instead, we need to help them have a new sense of worth. We can ask them for their advice.

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"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." - Plato

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