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/^t/People need a kind of confession. They can be both a person confessing the problems or listening to them. People have to have a purification of their lives, a way out of all intangled details and aspects of their existence. If they do not have friends they read books to become one of the characters and overcome both their and the character's dilemmas together. Such a katharsis is not a contemporary issue. It was brought up by Aristotle in ancient Greece and "has served" people since then. People need to share the problems to see they are not alone.