- the man who was Peter Pan -

Is it not ironic, then, that a story that ignites such joy was generated from such personal sorrow? Irony, perhaps, is the magical key to the mystery that draws audiences to Barrie's Peter (Pan) time and time again.
Ironic or not, one cannot dispute the power the tale wields over its audiences almost one hundred years after its creation. The fantasy's power lies in the fact that human beings all tend to search for that which we can no longer have.

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