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Question, do you feel lonely?

There are a lot of people who would answer, yes, just being honest with that, a lot.

The thing I saw today was one in four adults, say they're lonely in America.

So it was an USA study, but it's like...

I mention this because if you do, we've said this before, but it bears mentioning often.

You don't want to feel like you uniquely are some kind of failure, like you're doing something wrong, it may not be.

In fact, I was in this article that kind of made my point, mental health researcher at the University of Cambridge and the United Kingdom.

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