to start there is no real choice to being alone or being lonely with someone around. Both are a state of misery. And how well I know this misery--you can be alone even in a croud. Ms Jeana--I am very much alone 90% of the time both in fact and in a state of mind.

But the solution for either of us is what are we doing about it? Myself I have been going out and seeing all that I can see and explore. It helps but no matter how much I go out and meet people, there still is the hollow feeling inside. Turning to the 0ne-night-stands is almost just as bad if not making the matter worst. Still there is hope for either of us and others out there in our same situation. That someday we will encounter the missing half of our souls and never again will out hearts know lonileness.