Son - Pg 55

   Claire was fascinated. "What did people do with 'pets'?"
   Dimitri shrugged. "Played with them, I think. And also, pets provided company for lonely people. We don't have those now, of course."
   "Nobody's lonely here," Edith agreed.
   Claire was quiet. She didn't say this, but she was thinking: I am. I am lonely. Even as she thought it, though, she realized she didn't really know what the term meant.