Hello,

http://www.creators.com/lifestylefeatures/annies-mailbox/annie-s-mailbox-r-2009-03-05.html

(Annie's Mailbox® by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar)

What follows is one part of a letter on that page.

I am a very young-looking 65-year-old widow and an only child. My husband was also an only child. My parents are dead. I have no nieces or nephews, and my aunts and uncles are all dead, except one uncle by marriage who is 97 and lives in another state.

Is there a support group for people who are all alone in the world? Living without family is the most horrible existence there is, especially when your health is not good. Friends are not the same. You still have to go home to an empty house.”