"the reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them. how long could we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?"

~   doris grumbach, fifty days of solitude
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