not-real

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

I am real. This___e put his other hand over the first-__s real. You see me interacting with other people all day long, don__ you? I talk to people; I affect things in the world. I cause things to happen. I am real.___ut-but what if this whole place_-I had to suck in air again-__hat if everything is inside my head? East Shoal and Scarlet and this bridge and you-what if you__e not real because nothing is real?___f nothing__ real, then what does it matter?_ he said. __ou live here. Doesn__ that make it real enough?

So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world?

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.