“What is bluffing but pretending?” Susie spread her hands on the table. “Saying something is real when it isn’t. Putting up a false pretense and trying to get everyone else to believe it. But it’s not just poker, it’s life, too, right? We all wear masks and desperately hope no one will peek underneath. And yet there’s a big part of us that wants to take off the mask. That would be freedom.”
