Meet a man who has lived alone on an island for 31 years

Mauro Morandi has lived alone on Italy’s Budelli Island for 31 years. “What I love the most is the silence,” he says. “The silence in winter when there isn’t a storm and no one is around, but also the summer silence of sunset.”

By GULNAZ KHAN

PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHELE ARDU

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