As loneliness awareness week comes to a close, we share this article from the Curio archives by Hayley Campbell, who shares the positive side of living utterly alone. From finally having more me-time, becoming a day-time cinema goer and indulging in irregular sleep cycles she describes herself as living as an urban Blue Whale, humming her own tune into the emptiness of the night.

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