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Loneliness during the best days of your life

Published on : 7 September 2011 - 3:32pm | By Davion Ford (Photo: EenVandaag)
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It should be the time of their lives, but a significant number of Dutch university students suffer from feelings of loneliness. One programme helps these students, by coupling them with seniors, who invite them to live in their homes.

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Anonymous 9 September 2011 - 1:04pm / Lalaland

Then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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