Last night I started playing The Cat Lady, a horror adventure game about a woman whose soul has been suffocated by loneliness. She is lost, and she takes her own life, though of course this is just the beginning of the game, and though I don’t know where it’s going, I suspect that before all is said and done, she will find meaning again, or at least the possibility of meaning, through connections with others.

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I also started reading Sarah Schulman’s novel Empathy. From Kevin Killian’s introduction to the 2006 edition:

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That reminded me again of my friend’s question from a few days ago:

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Yesterday, while chatting with someone I care about, I took this photo, to show her where I was:

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We may work on ourselves in isolation, but it’s only in relation to others that we really know where we are.