Bree Hughes doesn't think in terms of dollars when asked how much she lost to poker machines during a long gambling addiction.
"Fifteen years of my life," she responds. "You wouldn't even know how many dollars."
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"Once you blow money that you shouldn't have the first time, and you go and put it all through those machines, that line's already crossed, so then you chase, because it's the only way that you see out of it."
Those 15 years include 10 months spent in prison, having commit

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