Question

What does slowly slipping away mean in the story?

The older children were fine, and the tiny ones seemed well, but the middle ones, the five to ten-year-olds, were slowly slipping away.

Answer 1

it could really come down to their mental state of mind and personality...like maybe they all went through something bad but the only ones really affected were the middle children, so maybe they used to be happy but now they are slowly slipping away from reality or society

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Answer 2

I need a little bit more to the story to answer this

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