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When hope requires mathematical denial

I keep buying lottery tickets even though I know the odds are terrible because it's the only way I can imagine escaping my current life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes we invest in impossibilities because the alternatives feel even more impossible.

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