Yet Cordellia is not alone.
When Cordellia is checked out of her fantasy and engaged in the real world,
Baby keeps living.
The next time Cordellia delves into dreamland,
she will encounter developments put into motion while she was away.
There's a lot of us,” says Cordellia, who approves a few new Wild Minds members every week.
When asked if she wishes there were a cure for M.D., Cordellia's response reflects this complicated duality.
Like Cordellia's Baby, the fantasy version of the fantasizer is more successful,
better looking, richer, happier and more popular.
And there's the version only Cordellia sees, a decades-long fantasy of her idealized self,
who is also named Cordellia(but goes by Baby) and is a successful musician/actress with a husband and eight children.