Thanks bliss!
You say:
The afternoon passed in a daze, and all afternoon I was wearing this big grin because Jack and Ennis are REAL!
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Bliss, may I say, like I am an artist-painter who create on canvas, you are an artist who needs such charactors to animate your story... so you live them like Annie did and does... and we do too!!
WE, artists, often have such imagination come to us in different forms; illusion as real moments... as one form, I suppose. What you say, comes to me likewise at times too!! We never know when, do we??
Would love to read your story... writer you are interesting us!
Every day, we come to see Ennis and Jack, Alma and Lureen, etc., as OUR family, and, therfore, they become real like you say!!
Keep care, hugs! Long to see your story!! I would be pleased to read it!