“One of the favourite books from the lending library is The Velveteen Rabbit, written by Margery Williams in 1922. Rabbit asks his friend the Skin Horse, ‘What is real?’ ‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ the Skin Horse replies. ‘It’s 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.’ I have read this book many times and this one sentence reminds me of the times in my life when I really came to understand the meaning of the word real.”