It's said that humans are one of the most adaptable creatures in the world. We've used our intelligence to make clothing for cold weather, construct weapons to hunt animals, cultivate agriculture where food is scarce, and we've built shelters to shield us from the elements. We adapt through ingenuity.

Yet how is it, that after two millennia, the human heart has yet to adapt to the condition of being alone? Is there an ingenious solution to this problem?

Surely the emotional calcification of the heart is not the best that our human adaptability can come up with. It is akin to shutting down the liver if it cannot successfully purge the body of toxins, or clogging up the lungs should they be unable to inhale.

The function of the heart is to love. The symptoms of a diseased heart - pangs of loneliness, more acute than the worst of hungers.