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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hagen Rice, published in 1942.

One of the hardest stretches we are called upon due tread in life is the one we travel alone.

As long as we march shoulder to shoulder with a comrade, we can often make the grade,

but in the deepest experiences that the soul can know, we must, of necessity, go alone. The tragic loss by death of loved ones,

the permanent physical separation or spiritual estrangement from friends, the isolation caused by

prolonged illness, come to us all, and must be accepted with what

faith and courage we can muster.

The primordial need for companionship, for understanding, seldom finds its perfect fulfillment.

Often the greatest individuals are the loneliest,

rising like mountain peaks in solitary grandeur above their fellow citizens.

With this hunger for companionship,

it is strange that instead of treating our fellow travelers with gentle consideration,

we often meet them with hostile glances or cold indifference. Unpleasant as the admission is,

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