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KATELYN MCMANIS
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Re: Childhood Stories

I don't a have a super specific story I can think of, but I thought it'd be fun to talk about my favorite stuffed animal from when I was little. I was probably 4 years old when my parents gave me a stuffed monkey for Valentine's day. My monkey became my best friend. I couldn't sleep, eat, or leave the house without him. Eventually he became very worn, losing patches of fur and looking a bit rough. I remember at one point my grandma had to basically resew his face on. He started looking pretty gross. My parents bought me a new monkey a few years later, just because they wanted to throw gross looking monkey away. They looked identical, but I refused to accept the new monkey. It wasn't the same. I still have old monkey sitting in my bedroom today.