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23 Mar 2025 09:33 PM
23 Mar 2025 09:33 PM
@Dreamy curled up on my bed trying to breathe rocking back and forth
23 Mar 2025 09:35 PM
23 Mar 2025 09:35 PM
@avant-garde you are safe now, we are here with you. Have you got a teddy to cuddle?
23 Mar 2025 09:37 PM
23 Mar 2025 09:37 PM
@Dreamy I have multiple teddies in arms reach. I'm now clutching my favourite bear, John (don't tell Eevee I said that).
Do you want to hear the story about how I got John?
23 Mar 2025 09:39 PM
23 Mar 2025 09:39 PM
@avant-garde glad you have one to cuddle, I won't tell Eevee, it'll be our little secret 😉.
I'd love to hear the story about how you got John 😊
23 Mar 2025 09:50 PM
23 Mar 2025 09:50 PM
@Dreamy so I have 2 university degrees and they're starkly different.
My first course I was studying to be a teacher because that's what my dad wanted, if I had to study anything (which he was very very against anyway) you can be a teacher because they get the most holidays. I was in my final semester when I quit and had enough credits to get a Bachelor of arts. So he was at my graduation ceremony and I asked if he could buy me a bear. He got me the cheapest one, not the one I pointed out because apparently I wasn't worth that much.
My second degree was studying to be a librarian and after 2 years I graduated. My "adoptive" big brother came with me and I asked him if he could buy me a bear. He didn't just buy me any bear, he bought me the one with my graduation colours and the pin and the biggest one, $90 for this bear, John.
23 Mar 2025 09:55 PM
23 Mar 2025 09:55 PM
@avant-garde I'm sorry to hear that he didn't buy you the one you wanted cos he didn't think you were worth that much, that would have been very hurtful.
I'm so glad you finally got the teddy you wanted and deserved. It all worked out in the end ❤️.
Also well done for graduating 😊
23 Mar 2025 10:00 PM
23 Mar 2025 10:00 PM
@Dreamy I don't care so much that my dad didn't buy me the bear, it just means that John means all the more to me because it came from someone who actually loves me.
My brother may be a douche sometimes, but he's my douche.
23 Mar 2025 10:07 PM
23 Mar 2025 10:07 PM
@avant-garde I'm glad that your brother brought you John. It sounds like there's alot of love there which is awesome ❤️.
23 Mar 2025 10:07 PM
23 Mar 2025 10:07 PM
23 Mar 2025 10:08 PM
23 Mar 2025 10:08 PM
@Dreamy more so that we aren't biologically related, but he CHOSE to be a brother to me, he CHOSE to step up and to love me like he does.
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