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There's a city of 8 million people... and somehow, you've never felt more alone. You wake up to an alarm — not a voice. You make coffee for one. You scroll through a hundred faces on your phone, and not one of them knows what you dreamed about last night. This is the quiet life. And millions of Americans are living it right now. According to recent studies, over 60 percent of American adults report feeling lonely — not occasionally, not on bad days — but chronically. Persistently. Like a low hum