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When I was growing up, I had a stuff tiger name hops.

When I loved more than anything.

A friend of my mom's had given him to me when I was four and he was supposed to be named Hobbes,

but I misunderstood and I called him Hobbs.

Well, he wasn't a particularly handsome tiger.

In fact, they didn't even have stripes.

He was just a uniform reddish color.

We all considered him a tiger anyway.

And he had yellow glass eyes, very long tail.

When squeezed, you could feel that he was full of small objects,

probably rice or little beads.

Sfer was fabulous because it wasn't made with anything synthetic.

Mom said it was probably horse hair.

And that I should treat him carefully.

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