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Loneliest

Carly Rae Jepsen’s Loneliest Hour

Before Carly Rae Jepsen takes the stage each night on her So Nice Tour, she has a special guest greet the audience. Flanked by cotton candy clouds and twinkling stars, an animated moon with pursed lips and piercing blue eyes appears on the…

The Loneliest Team in Baseball

OAKLAND — One quiet night earlier this month, fewer than 3,000 fans went to an Oakland Athletics game. It was so vacant and tranquil at the bulky, old coliseum, that the visiting Tampa Bay Rays players could hear the crisp enunciation of…

The Loneliest Mountaineer on Everest

The tattered remains of an orange tent flap in the wind. A single rope dangles from a 300-foot wall of rock. The sound of crampons squeaking on snow and ice breaks the silence. Only one backpack appears, and it belongs to Jost Kobusch, a…