You know what I find really sad? Is that there are some people, our own age, who aren't older, who aren't on the streets, who have by most standards, normal regular lives, and they're lonely.

I've got a wonderful girlfriend who has been one of my dearest friends since we were 14 and she's now living in Las Vegas. She has a couple of friends and her mother lives in a retirement community there but she's been divorced, gone through some bad relationships, works a lot but doesn't make a lot of money, and she's so lonely that it makes me want to scoop her up because it's just so sad.

She told me once that she wasn't like me, I have a lot of friends and I nurture that sort of relationship but she feels that she doesn't have the time or energy to do that and so instead she goes home at night and sits with her dog and her cat, in a cluttered little apartment and watches tv and eats and suffers the repurcussions of that.

Now how do you get someone to change while they still can?

Kate