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The house was unusually quiet one Saturday afternoon. No messages lighting up the phone. No plans waiting on the calendar. Just a long stretch of hours with nowhere specific to be. Years ago, that ...

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I had lived alone before, and was comfortable doing things independently. But going to the performance alone had all the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Virginia Thomas, Middlebury (THE CONVERSATION) Over the past few years, experts have ...