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snoopy
i have a snoopy toy that i've had since i was a kid. i must have had him since i was very young because i can't even remember getting my first one. he slept in my bed with me & i carried him with me everywhere. although snoopy is meant to be white, my snoopy was very grey from so much cuddling.
my sister had one too & she & i used to play with them together, making them play with each other. sometimes, on long drives, dad would put snoopy on his lap & make him play different musical instruments in time to the songs on the radio.
when we moved to melbourne i lost my snoopy! i remember standing on the corner outside flinders street station, with mum & dad & my sister, when i suddenly realised that he was gone & i exclaimed with a hint of mild panic, "where's snoopy?!" we'd only just moved to melbourne & we didn't know our way around very well (not to mention that it's a big city), so mum & dad agreed that we couldn't go looking for him.
that night, when mum tucked me into bed, she asked if i'd be okay without snoopy, & i bravely said that i would, but lying there alone without my snoopy, i cried anyway. for months, i had visions from a foot's eye view (so to speak) as if in some strange documentary, of poor snoopy lying on the footpath, feet kicking him & stepping on him, his seams coming apart & his stuffing slowly but surely falling out.
years later, i actually recalled where i'd left my original snoopy! i'd put him down on the counter in a darryl lea chocloate shop & then forgotten to pick him up again. i wasn't without him for very long, i think that mum & dad got me another snoopy almost straight away. my new snoopy was so white & fluffy, but it didn't take long for him to get grey. i still have him tucked away in a box somewhere.
i guess i'll keep him forever. maybe when i have kids they'll play with him too .. but they'd better not lose him!
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