gachunia

    A toy rabbit and a toy horse were talking. 'What is real?'asked the rabbit one day as they lyin side by side near the nursery fender just before nana came in to tidy the room.

'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. 'It is a thing that happens to you.When a child loves you for a long long time  not just to play with but REALLY loves you, then you become real.'

'Does it hurt?'asked the rabbit "sometimes,said the skin horse for he was always truthful,When you are real you dont mind being hurt.'

Does it happen all at once,'said the rabbit, like being wound up or bit by bit.

It doesn't happen at once,'you become and it takes a long time.That is why it does not happen to people who break easily or have sharp edges or who have to be very carefull kept.Generally by the time you are real most of your hair have been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints very shabby.But these things dont matter at all,because once you are real you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand.