Doesn't sound exaggerated to me. This year will be my fourth xmas without someone to celebrate with. Yes there's my family, but I haven't felt included since my last real xmas in 2009.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'