Patrick NessBut what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?
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A dream is a vision of what could be. It's the idea of something better than reality. It's the hope that something better can happen if we work hard enough. It's the desire to make things better. It's the wish for a better future.
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