The American Spectator

p> THE GOOD STUFF br> Re: Ben Stein’s Mr. Lonely : /p> p>I have a tear in my eye after reading Dr. Stein today (if he isn’t a doctor, please get him an honorary degree). I am going to find some single military people to invite to my next party. Thanks for the idea! br> — John P. br> Elmhurst, Illinois /p>

Thank you for yet another wonderful and insightful article. You put into words what many of us can only feel. As a single mother for the past 10 years, I can testify to what loneliness feels like. It’s that empty feeling when you go to bed at night with no one to talk to. It’s that jealous feeling when you see couples walk down the street. It’s that envious feeling when you hear your friends talk about their husbands and what they did last weekend. It’s that sad feeling when people talk about getting together with other couples and you aren’t invited. Because you aren’t a couple. You are only one. There are very few people who will actually take the time to do what you suggested and invite a single person to dinner. Or call him or her. Or ask him or her to go camping for the weekend.

I don’t know why that is. Is it because a single person is a threat to the couple? A reminder of what they once were and could be again?

p>God bless our service men and women and their families. God bless America. br> —