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"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day.
"Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse..."When a child
loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then
you become real. It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You
become. It takes a long time ...Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your
hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and
very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you
can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
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