A Once Beloved Bear

Daily writing prompt

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

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As a young child I had a favorite plushie, a “stuffed animal” — what we in the United States would call a teddy bear.

It was a rather large brown bear of shamefully poor quality. I wouldn’t describe it as being cute and its filling was quite stiff so it wasn’t cuddly either. I loved it dearly. I called it “Fuzz Button”. I was so attached to this bear that I would have been inconsolable if it had been lost or damaged.

I held onto that bear almost into my adolescence, I must have been ten or eleven when it fell out of my favor. About that time my mum was an occasional babysitter. I returned home from school one day to find some other child, an infant, chewing and slobbering on that once beloved bear. That was the end. Fuzz Button was forever tainted and I outgrew that ratty old toy right then and there.

I don’t know what became of it after that. To the rubbish bin probably.