This discussion, already awash with wish fulfillment, can now go one of three ways.

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Listening to the silence on the line, William thought that maybe this was a dream or a fantasy on his part, just wish fulfillment.

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"A lot of outer space hoaxes are really just exercises in wish fulfillment, " says self-proclaimed "hoaxpert" Alex Boese, author of the wide-ranging Museum of Hoaxes: A History of Outrageous Pranks and Deceptions.

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" "We have the wish-fulfillment of people who feel they've been left behind by the system.

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In a desire to bring his harsh portrayal of unfreedom to a rousing finish, Johnson embarks on a wish-fulfillment romance that makes happiness seem like just another tall tale.

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