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In order to just maintain, to live my life, I have to kind of trick myself to the series

of choices. Red jacket or grey jacket. Open your toes just to get the blood flowing.

And yeah, some of the choices get harder is today the day you tear the band-aid off that

conversation you do not want to have or not. Pay this over-do bill or that over-do bill.

And when I'm trying to trick myself, framing is everything. Is your lazy behind going to get to the

gym or not? Hey, I'm not lazy. Then go to the gym. Do you love your mother? Of course, I love my

mama. Then call her. And I know full well that this is a simplification, a game, that my universe

of what to do at any given moment is not binary. It's infinite. But engaging this game feels safer,

feels more confident, far less bewildering than the fact that I don't have to play.

Today on Snap Judgment, we probably present pain.

The story about one woman who chooses to play a different game altogether. My name is

Gumball Washington and you've made the best choice of all by listening. Snap Judgment.

Snap us. What happens when dreams come true? Since she was about five years old,

paying news she went to go to college, but in China, the cultural revolution began.

So books were burned, schools were shut down, and pain wouldn't have it. She educated herself in

underground book clubs from a third grade to high school, all for the biggest out of reach dream.

College. But paying surprise yourself, which you not only got in the college, she got into Beijing

University, the Harvard of China, and paying continued to dream. She wanted to be a post-professor

in poetry and creative writing, and she kept her head down in school and just the weak shy of

graduating. Someone else had other dreams for paying. Snap Judgment.

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