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Summary: A gift from a true friend
Review: This insiteful and feeling missive was given me by a wonderful lady who has been a friend to me over these past 30 odd years. She knows me better, I think, than either of the two wives who are now parts of my history. She presented it to me at one of our impromptu lunchs. This, soon after I had moved into my new dwelling, in the wake of a 21 year marrage. She long knew of my inner need for space, for solitude, for privacy. Dr. Buchholz has most wonderfully rolled all of these into one and given it a name and an identity. "Aloneness" is as sucsinct and possitive a dubbing as I would hope to find. Of course, the term itself is not of the essence. The true value is the use of the term to deliniate as clear and licid a distincion twixt it and 'aloneness', as she has. Although this is a concept stated very early in the volume, and presented as a clearification and basic premmis, I find that it is of great value in and of itself. I thank her for, in this preface, giving voice to a feeling which I could not do, to even my own satisfaction, here-for-to. That is, without feeling of alienation and perceptions of dissappoval and reproach from those I trusted with my thoughts. Most, that is, other than my lunch partner. I could go on, at lenght, about the rest of the offerings of this book, but I think it best that you read it and draw from it what you will. I hope, only, that it is as enriching an experience for you as I found it to be. I suppose that I must add, in the manner of recomendation, the comment that I have made a gift of this volume to several fine folks. Those I considered, if you will, my kindred in this relhm of 'Aloneness'. To a one, the thanks were the essence.
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