Well, when August said the “as real as I am” line I thought of Peter Pan, who in the stories is supposedly a fictional character Wendy Darling (if I am remembering this correctly) makes up to her two brothers, Michael and John, but then turns out to be real and comes from a Fairy Tale Lane (not our FTL, but the Never Never Land).
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"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"