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What’s real and what’s not? People we meet in books–Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo– can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers’ licenses. Characters spawned in an author’s imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.
