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michelle ✍️💞📕🎢💫🥑@michelleakin• about 2 years ago

another norm that I didn’t understand as a child was having a favorite stuffed animal that you’d had since you were born my friends all seemed to have these well-loved little stuffed friends, and i did not this made me feel like an outsider, so I set out to fix it…

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michelle ✍️💞📕🎢💫🥑@michelleakin• about 2 years ago

Replying to @MichelleAkin

I decided that the very next stuffed animal I received as a gift, I would claim as my best friend for life shortly thereafter, my aunt gave me a stuffed animal bunny i began carrying him everywhere

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michelle ✍️💞📕🎢💫🥑@michelleakin• about 2 years ago

Replying to @MichelleAkin

he looked too perfect to fit my narrative of “have had since born” and so i: -got scissors and snipped his fluffy fur down -rolled him around in dirt -removed one of the wires holding up his ears

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michelle ✍️💞📕🎢💫🥑@michelleakin• about 2 years ago

Replying to @MichelleAkin

i acted overly possessive of him. i “fed” him food at dinner (all the better to have him look dirty/worn-in) and i generally set about telling the story of how i had loved him my whole life to my delight… people believed me

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michelle ✍️💞📕🎢💫🥑@michelleakin• about 2 years ago

Replying to @MichelleAkin

not only that, but they started telling the story on my behalf i cannot begin to explain just how fascinating this was for me. i created a narrative. i believed it. other people didn’t question it.

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michelle ✍️💞📕🎢💫🥑@michelleakin• about 2 years ago

Replying to @MichelleAkin

eventually, this bunny did come to mean a lot to me. in fact, at 38 years old, i am still caring for the lil guy https://t.co/CN5oIbR2y5

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michelle ✍️💞📕🎢💫🥑@michelleakin• about 2 years ago

Replying to @MichelleAkin

anyone else do something like this?!

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Phil@blisstweeting• about 2 years ago

Replying to @MichelleAkin

@MichelleAkin yes 👉👈

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michelle ✍️💞📕🎢💫🥑@michelleakin• about 2 years ago

Replying to @blisstweeting

@blisstweeting !!!! ☺️🫶🏼

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