Lost childhood stuffy
I lost my childhood stuffy, Stanley, 4 years ago and I’m still absolutely devastated. He’d been everywhere with me. The last time I had him, I was in France, and we were about to leave. We emptied the holiday home and got in the car. I definitely put him in there. The next stop was the car rental place, which was within walking distance to the airport hotel. I checked the car before we returned it, and it was empty. We then walked to the airport hotel. When we got to the room, I started to unpack my essentials for the one night that we were going to spend there, when I realized that I didn’t have him. I asked my mum and my nana if they’d seen him, and they told me that he was probably in one of the suitcases and that it was fine. I thought “okay then, I guess I’ll find him when we get home”. I never did. I don’t know what happened or where he ended up, but I’m still absolutely crushed about it. My mum and I told her friend (who gave Stanley to me when I was a baby) if she could tell us where she got him from, but she told us that Stanley was also given to her as a gift, and she didn’t remember who gave him to her.
I went back to the same holiday home the next year, and asked the couple who owned the pizza place next door if their daughter (a toddler) had maybe found him or picked him up, but they told me that they’d never seen him before. I still cry about him to this day, all these years later.
I’ve looked for a replacement, but I can’t find the exact model. A replacement wouldn’t be the same anyway… he was just too special. I can’t help but wonder where he is now. I just keep hoping that I’ll find him someday…
P.S. The first photo is what he looked like when he was young, his fluff level certainly went down as he got older 😅
He’s also sort of grey in the sixth photo… we had a little incident involving some exploding paint 🙈
If anyone can offer any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.
If you got this far, thank you so much for reading this unnecessarily long post.