Small bowls and wooden spoons surround a steaming shared cooking pot on blue-grey.

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Dorothy Day

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Everyone has felt a deep, lasting loneliness, the speaker says, and the answer they've found is love, which in turn grows through community. Connection with others, not solitary effort, is presented as the way through isolation.

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