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Sep 28, 2021Liked by Phoebe Maltz Bovy

So much room to project what-about-me-ism into this discussion, which of course is what your post is largely about. As an aging gay man myself, I see your neighbor’s apparent contented freedom as very possibly (probably?) the result of adjusting to loneliness to the point that it’s just a low-grade constant in his life rather than crippling. (I realize your post was very much not discounting that possibility.)

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