@Roady_Dragonfae@kara Yeah! I was just responding to this when I found out something interesting. I thought this was a direct quote from the original story, but the story was rewritten and republished with modernized English so it'd parse more easily to modern generations of kids.
The original was by Margery Williams and first published in 1922, and the full text of that is available online for free thanks to our friends at archive.org.
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@Roady_Dragonfae @kara Yeah! I was just responding to this when I found out something interesting. I thought this was a direct quote from the original story, but the story was rewritten and republished with modernized English so it'd parse more easily to modern generations of kids.
The original was by Margery Williams and first published in 1922, and the full text of that is available online for free thanks to our friends at archive.org.
https://archive.org/stream/thevelveteenrabb11757gut/11757.txt