"You come here, there's people, but you're alone, too".
He has been alone, too; no one comes to his seventh birthday party.
"It's a really badly needed reassurance for these people who have been alone too long".
Blake has always felt comfortable being alone – too comfortable, he thinks.
The nun in the nursing home reminds him that he is alone too much, that he cries too much, that if he mingled it would do him good.
When a woman eating by herself apologized to the hostess for taking up a table, the warm, reassuring reply she received was, "Don't be silly, I'm alone too, but I gotta eat".
But he raised Fran and her three younger siblings by himself after their mother died when Fran was 8, and he didn't want his oldest daughter to be alone too.
Pop's calling his girl from the heart of the party, telling her he's been alone too long, signing off one last time before losing himself in hedonistic pansexual excess.
Out of this sketchy evidence, Aucoin invents a full-blown mystery man, with a haunted past and a grudge against the whole world and Whitman in particular, whom he taunts one minute ("Don't you have a life of your own?"), and seduces the next ("You are alone, I'm alone too. Take me and let me take you").
Which is fine, because I'm alone too often to photograph others anyway.
