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Speaker 1: A new study finds that Americans are growing more lonely.

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Speaker 1: Just a sign of the time, says this Foxborough Octagenerium.

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Speaker 2: It's not like old school you sit around the kitchen

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Speaker 2: table and the family would talk. They're on the phones.

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Speaker 1: And while some people go to Lance to try and

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Speaker 1: solve the issue, he says.

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Speaker 3: He's not sure how effective their methods can be.

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Speaker 4: They hate being a loan. They'll go through the Bard,

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Speaker 4: They'll go anywhere trying to find companionships.

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Speaker 1: New data, according to AARP, finds forty nine percent of

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Speaker 1: folks in their late forties identify with being lonely even

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Speaker 1: when around others.

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Speaker 5: You might want to speak to some of your family

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Speaker 5: members and friends, but they might be busy just because

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Speaker 5: of life, so that can cause some loneliness. Also because

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Speaker 5: people work a lot.

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Speaker 6: It's interesting the way your world shrinks as right.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for a whole bunch of reasons.

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Speaker 3: Chris Famer WBZ, Boston's news radio