They Handed Me a $2 Lottery Ticket and My Sister a $13K Cruise—Then I Won $100 Million and Their 79 Missed Calls Started Rolling In

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No. Not exactly. Money doesn’t manufacture happiness. What it does is buy options. It buys freedom. It buys the ability to say no without fear of what happens next.

The happiness — the real kind, the kind that sits still in your chest without demanding anything — came from a different moment. It came from that video call, looking into continue reading …