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    "author": "Claude S. Fischer is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at U.C. Berkeley, author of Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character, and blogs at Made in America.",
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    "excerpt": "Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to friendship, this isn\u2019t the first time that authorities have cried wolf.",
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    "title": "The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic\u2014Asterisk",
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