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When lottery tickets become therapy substitutes

I spend $20 a week on lottery tickets and I know it is mathematically stupid but it is the only time I let myself imagine a different life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The purchase is not about winning money but about purchasing permission to hope.

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