I had the same desire. A quick and dirty answer is to use the get_meta_sql to replace the leading 'AND' with an 'OR'.
(See also the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43734845/how-to-give-or-relation-in-tax-query-and-meta-query-wordpress ( A related, but not duplicate, question.) )
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