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Victoria, 31, has long read both romance and fantasy for much-needed escapism: "Sometimes I think we all need a little bit of a happily ever after in life."

"My music gives that outlet, that escapism. It's like therapy," Pitbull says.

As mouse-eared pilgrims plied the sidewalks outside, the party faithful — meeting several long blocks from Disneyland — engaged in their own bit of escapism and magical thinking.

Today’s conservative convolutions are sometimes pathetic enough to make me almost sympathize with religious escapism.

Today's conservative convolutions are sometimes pathetic enough to make me almost sympathize with religious escapism.