About 50 years ago, a young man with extraordinary emotional intelligence wrote a song about how it felt to be old and forgotten. “Hello in There” by John Prine is still a perfect evocation of loneliness in old age.
None of us wants to end up like the aging couple in the song, isolated and alone in a world that has passed them by. But loneliness and isol…
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