“She is a person with many friends and many internal and moral and intellectual resources, yet she confesses in the most disarming–and helpful–manner how much the Internet came to her aid, first when her son was killed and second when she discovered that a term had been set on her own life. The importance of this medium in bringing about a great unspoken social reform–the abolition of loneliness–has not to my knowledge been better evoked.”
Christopher Hitchens, “The Pain of Elizabeth Edwards” (The Atlantic, September 2009)