The Next Life [Book Excerpt: 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared]

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My brother Bret started the next life at forty, when he departed from this world by suicide.

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Learning To Be Alone Again

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After ten years of marriage, Nathan Graziano is finding being alone a different challenge from his old single days.

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My God Lives on the Street

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Adam Bucko knows where God lives.

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Waterloo Sunset’s Fine: An Insight into Male Solitude

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One of the main symptoms people with depression describe isn’t upset, but detachment.

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30 Days Without Social Media: The Wrap Up

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Collin Slattery learns which kinds of connections fulfill, and which are unsatisfying in comparison, in his experiment in avoiding social media.

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30 Days Without Social Media: Two Weeks In

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Halfway into a month-long fast from social media, Collin Slattery wavers between enthusiasm and despair.

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30 Days Without Social Media: One Week In

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At the end of a week without social media, Collin Slattery is becoming aware of the changes in himself.

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30 Days Without Social Media

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Collin Slattery is taking a break from Facebook and Twitter. Could you survive a month-long fast from social media?

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Parallel Universe, MT Population: 1

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Oliver Lee Bateman writes, “I lived in a state of parallel play alongside the denizens of what struck me as a strange, distant world.”

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Beauty within Solitude: A Poem

What CC Moses has learned from Jesus about beauty.

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The Solitary Drink

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Is it OK to drink alone? One man attempts to break the habitual routine.

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The Sweetest Sound

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During my waking life I’ve always been tormented by noise—voices in my brain that turned terror into self-hatred.

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Solitude: A Photographic Series

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Stephen Sheffield shares three images that speak volumes about being alone.

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Table for One

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Who calls and reserves a table for one in a restaurant? Dan Griffin has learned to enjoy his own company.

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Solitude is Sweeter, Having Been Appreciated

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How to understand the paradox of being celebrated vs. socially celibate.

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Alone but not Lonely: Solitude and Online Role-Playing

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Can you be alone but still have a community? One man’s venture into online role-playing.

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