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<i>Chapter One</i><br><b>PREMONITION</b><br><i>Waiting for the state to strike<br></i><br><br>I’ve had periods of loneliness my whole life. Since research shows a genetic basis for loneliness, with some people being born with an ingrained tendency toward the state, I now see these periods as natural, almost inevitable. Or, rather, I see them as inevitable from the perspective of the adult I’ve become. I’m the sort of person who likes to play “What if?” What if I hadn’t dropped physics? What if I’d married my first boyfriend? What if Henry Ford had mass-produced bicycles instead of cars? And I can engage in this sort of shuffling and reshuffling of reality when it comes to my loneliness. I can daydream about a childhood in which my sisters and I were closer in age, and my parents stayed together, and my whole family remained in the South. In this way, I can whip up an alternate version of my life, one in which my genetic predisposition toward loneliness doesn’t slam up against the experience of early isolation.<br> <br>But the fact is that I was a solitary child born into circumstances that saw me too much alone. I don’t mean that I was friendless. One of the overriding ironies of m

Author

Emily Jane White

Publisher

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771088780

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences

Rating

3.38 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14