Something about the dusk and the Christmas lights on the houses

"You're so serious," people frequently said to the boy. They usually said it in such a way that he began to believe there was something wrong with him. That maybe he should be something other than what he was. I think it would have been nice if the boy had asked the commentators if they'd ever lost something elemental. Because that's where serious begins. That's when he became a real boy in a cartoon world. 

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