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Optimism is more than a rosy outlook

by HARVEY MACKAY
| March 8, 2026 1:00 AM

David, a second-grader, stumbled while getting on the school bus and suffered a cut on his cheek. At recess, he collided with another boy, and two of his teeth were knocked loose. At noon, while sliding on the ice, he fell and broke his wrist. Later at the hospital, his father noticed that David was clutching a quarter in his good hand.

"I found it on the ground when I fell," David said. "This is the first quarter I ever found. This sure is my lucky day."

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