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With regard to your post, I'll just say that I am a loner too. I often refer to myself as an "urban hermit". My reasons are different. But I neither have nor seek friends. I am married. So I'm not entirely alone. And I do know people on a casual, acquaintanceship basis. I also have no interest in encountering people I have nothing in common with & won't have any occasion to get to know. So I don't find your preferred lifestyle to be the least bit unusual! It's unfortunate your parents feel the need to try to change you. It's your life. But I know how this goes. I'm an older person now & my parents are long since dead. But when they were alive, they acted similarly even though I was married & long gone from their home.

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