The other possibility is that BOTH Annies are "our Annie", and that attempting to figure out which one is "real" is counter-productive both in-story and from our POV.
The other possibility is that BOTH Annies are "our Annie", and that attempting to figure out which one is "real" is counter-productive both in-story and from our POV.
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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