![]() And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. “I suppose you are real?” said the Rabbit. 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.” 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. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” ![]() “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. And, while this means the end of their time together, the rabbit still visits the boy from time to time – and reminds us that, while circumstances often change, love always carries on. But the rabbit, his most cherished toy, has been so well loved that he becomes Real. When the Velveteen Rabbit’s owner has scarlet fever, all of his toys have to be destroyed for fear of infection.
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