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MasterFireMaam -> RE: Personal Announcement (12/28/2006 1:56:43 AM)
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ORIGINAL: angharad
Congratulations. I will look forward to reading it and I must also read the book about the toy rabbit, I sometimes have tears in my eyes when you speak about it, I'm a softie! I'll do a joint order from amazon as there is no way I'd get over to America, unfortunately. Incidentally I love your sig line, it is spot on. Again congratulations and best wishes.
Edited, oh darn it, in reply to MasterFireMaam, not Governess, apologies
The Velveteen Rabbit is fabulous. I mean, you just don't get any better than:
“...Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you...”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.
“When you are Real, you don’t mind being hurt...It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. 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.”
This is just a beautiful commentary about learning to be "you"!
Master Fire
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