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When families avoid testing for suspected water contamination

Our whole family drinks well water that we suspect is contaminated from the old gas station, but testing is expensive and if it's bad we can't afford to fix it, so we're all just living with this knowledge and nobody wants to be the one to insist we find out for sure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sometimes the luxury of uncertainty feels safer than the burden of knowing, until the not-knowing becomes its own kind of poison.

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