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loneliness

 [lōn´le-nes]
a sense of dejection because of being alone.
risk for loneliness a nursing diagnosis accepted by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, defined as being at risk for experiencing vague dysphoria.
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The drama continues in Return to Lonesome Dove featuring Jon Voight, Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr, Reese Witherspoon, Oliver Reed and CSI's William Petersen.
My ECHO review of Lonesome noted: "Martin Shaw had promised us an impression rather than an impersonation of Presley, yet he takes the honours on both counts.
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It started with The Lonesome Fire delivering The Beatles' Sgt Pepper.
Haines, who performs around town as Lonesome Randall, started playing in bands in 1966 but is only now releasing his first solo CD, "One Foot in the Country."
@stuheritage: I'd lose the will to live if the whole world called me Lonesome George, too.
AWARD-WINNING western Lonesome Dove bursts on to DVD full of rootin', tootin', shootin' action.
Lonesome Glory's first three starts were on the Flat, and on his fourth outing he won a steeplechase.
We fled the scene leaving big Barry on his lonesome. By all accounts he eventually made it home on Saturday morning.
Somehow Jones is inventive enough to tie in Jim Morrison and the high lonesome harmonies of the Louvin Brothers as the seedy scenes of life's highway unfolds.