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“What should young people do with their lives?' That's a good question, and the writer Kurt Vonnegut once came up with a good answer. 'Many things, obviously,' he said. 'But the most daring is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

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We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends

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