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#imma type the book until i run out of characters just to prove i have it memorized
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the velveteen rabbit be like "folks I actually do need to BeReal"
#what is real#does it mean having thing that buzz inside you and a stickout handle?#real jdnt how you are made#its a thing#that happens to you. when a child loves you for a really long time#not just to play with but really loves you then you become real#does it hurt?#sometimes#when you sre real you dont mind being hurt.#does it happen all at once like being wound up?#said the skin horse.#the velveteen rabbit#imma type the book until i run out of characters just to prove i have it memorized#here was a velveteen rabbit and in the beginning he was very splendid. he was fat and bunchy as a rabbit should be his coat was spotted bro#wn and white he had real thread whiskers and his ears were lined with pink satin. on christmas morning when he sat wedged in the top of the#boy's stocking with a sprig of holly between his paws#the effect was charming. there were other things in the stocking: nuts and oranges and a toy engine and chocolate almonds and a clockwork m#ouse but the rabbit was quite the best of all. for at least two hours the boy loved him#and then aunts and uncles came to dinner and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels and in the excitement of#looking at all the new presents the velveteen rabbit was forgotton. christmas morning: for a long time he lived in the toy cupoard or on th#e nursery floor and noone thought very much abiut him. he was naturally shy and being only made of velveteen some of the more expensice toy#s quite snubbed him. the mechanicsl toys were very superior and looked doen on everyone else they were full of modern ideas and pretended#they were real. the model boat who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint caught the tone from them and never missed an o#pportunity to refer to his rigging in technical terms. the rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything for he didnt know that real rab#bits existed. he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself and he understood thag sawdust was quite out of date and should ne#ver be mentioned in modern circles. even timithy the jointed wooded lion who was made by the disabled soldiers and should have had broader#views put on airs and pretended he was connected with government. between them all the poor little rabbit was made to feel himself very ins#ignificant and commonplace and the onlt person who was kind to him at all was the skin horse. the skin horse had lived longer in the nurser#y than any of the others. he was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams undernwath and most of the hairs in hi#s tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaxes. he was wise for he had seen a long succession of toys arrive to boast and swagger and
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