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“Sometimes you don't realize you are lonely until a kind stranger makes you feel like a friend for fifteen minutes and you go away feeling loved. Loneliness is not always the absence of human interaction. More often, it is the absence of human kindness.”

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Book:Sketches of a Small Life
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