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Today, we will find clarity on how actually everyone is having a hard time in the loneliness epidemic and why there's really no good reason to break it down into gendered think

pieces, raising the alarm about young men while ignoring the loneliness of women just because men are louder

complainers, and will present a timely remedy for loneliness that anyone of any age can do.

We begin with, does anyone care that young women are just as lonely as men from Cosmopolitan

magazine to which I think we can just

answer no and move on.

That one's asked and answered.

Here's the key point.

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