Your life is probably a series of improbable yeses

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chronicles of becoming

There is a kind of luck we rarely discuss. Not the fun luck of finding twenty dollars or hitting green lights all the way home, but the foundational luck that precedes all effort: which soul lands in which body, in which country, in which year. I was born in Brazil to a family that had little but believed in one thing absolutely: education was the door, and I was the one who could open it. The belief was given to me before I had done anything to deserve it, a bet placed on a person who did not yet exist The diva, modesty aside, on whom said bet was placed, featuring a disproportionally…

Your life is probably a series of improbable yeses

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