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How to Connect When Most of Your People Are Gone

I'm sixty-eight and everyone I used to call is dead and I don't know how to make new friends when I feel like a ghost myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Outliving one's community creates a profound isolation that youth-oriented advice cannot address.

Ideas that help explain it
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If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.