I've never felt lonesome in my life. Isolation is so much part of my being that if I had a language of my own it would never occur to me to have a word for isolation. I learned real, real early that other people were solely and only trouble. Absorbed that in its entirety into every bone and cell in my body. It is me. Somehow (not quite sure how) got married. To a lass who needed 99% isolation just like me. I was her exception, she was mine. Which is why we've been isolated together since we were kittens, puppies, and now are ancient, gray, gap-toothed, liver-spotted. Crusoe and Friday, though which is which no one can ever tell. Take care.