Dear Eric: I retired a couple of years ago. I — like many people, I think — have realized that most of my friends and even acquaintances were work-related.

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My family doesn’t live close. I’ve always been a loner, so this doesn’t normally even bother me.

I recently had a health issue come up where I needed a “responsible adult” to drive me home from surgery and I had a hard time coming up with someone.

Most of my interests are ones done alone and, when I looked into senior centers, the things they had were all craft stuff that I have no interest in learning. I’m a woman who has never really had much in common with other women and, at my age, have no interest in an actual relationship.

I had a couple of really bad experiences with organized religion in my youth and I’ve

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