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Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.

Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.35, Marshall Cavendish
Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.