“I’d prefer to hear from a nurse, a secretary, a sales assistant, an office worker, a taxi driver. Even, believe it or not, an average middle-ranking journalist. I want to hear from people like me, like us, who live alone - sometimes through choice, often through circumstance - and are happy doing so. Their views would also, I suspect, be rather less rose-tinted than those of a writer who needs the solitude to work on their latest novel.”
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Unreliably Witnessed: Real people live alone too
This is a good response to an interesting but flawed Guardian Weekend article about living alone.
