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2005-03-02 - 6:34 a.m. Poor Old Teddy For a while there I thought the straw-stuffed teddy bear I found upstairs might be a Steiff, but no, he's just a very loved, scruffy, unmarked floppy-eared teddy missing his eyes. It seems strange that children used to be allowed to cuddle with these guys - I tried hugging him a bit, and he crackled, and left a residue dusting of straw from his crudely hand-sewn seams. What do I do with this poor old abandoned Teddy? Guess I'll let him sit on the sofa beside me for a bit today, and then return him into the dark abandoned apartment upstairs. But before I do - as I'm looking at his fat funny eyeless face, I know, as an artist, I must draw him -