Select the best evidence to support the statement "The narrator feels the anticipation of something is often better than the thing itself." There may be more than one correct choice.
Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know
that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.
Poor people who win the lottery do not become rich people. They
become
poor
people who won the lottery. She was a very beautiful person who was missing
something very ugly. Her winnings were the absence of something, and this quality
hung around her. There was so much potential in the imagined removal of the
birthmark; any fool on the bus could play the game of guessing how perfect she
would look without it.
From Miranda July, "Birthmark." Copyright 2007 by Miranda July
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