two Western girls looking out at the tepid and passionless Atlantic, and we talk about how lonely we so often feel. We talk about how weird and crazy it is that this loneliness could happen in the heart of our most vibrant cities—Boston and New York—that anybody could feel so abandoned and so alone. And yet we do. And we’re not the only ones. So many people speak of this and feel this in our strange time. It is the era of hyper-connected isolation.
