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Brightness controls whether someone sees the hopeful or dark side of what's in front of them. Michael Corso had spent 25 years looking at the race car dream through a lens that said it wasn't available to him — not out of self-pity, but out of pragmatism. Calling in to a radio fundraiser and saying yes flipped that. And when he stopped 50 feet short of the flag and lost, he could have stayed in the dark frame. Instead, within two seconds, his brightness adjusted: he wasn't the guy who lost by 50 feet, he was the blind man who drove a race car at 100 miles an hour.