“Control is a drug, and we are all hooked, whether or not we believe in the prosperity gospel’s assurance that we can muster the future with our words and attitudes. I can barely admit to myself that I have almost no choice but to surrender, but neither can those around me. I can hear it in my sister-in-law’s voice as she tells me to keep fighting. I can see it in my academic friends, who do what researchers do... Buried in all their concern is the unspoken question: Do I have any control?”
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