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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI once gave one of my very (fav) teachers one of my very favorite toys. Fast forward three decades.
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MOMFUDSKI
(5,860 posts)Thanks for sharing. Wow.
Ocelot II
(116,084 posts)Nice story!
mopinko
(70,419 posts)dont have a bee, but i have a chicken, and sparky the clown.
i had teddy bear w a drum, but a friend of mine has a grandson named teddy, so i gave it to her.
jaxexpat
(6,900 posts)mopinko
(70,419 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,126 posts)TNNurse
(6,938 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)They are beautiful.
What a sweet thing this teacher has done!
rsweets
(307 posts)Rebl2
(13,638 posts)sweet story.
paleotn
(18,040 posts)That brings back very, very old memories. I had one of those too.
Evolve Dammit
(16,864 posts)mgardener
(1,828 posts)spudspud
(512 posts)CrispyQ
(36,605 posts)spudspud
(512 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Probably hoping to do this one day.
Beautiful!
elleng
(131,584 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,224 posts)I'm in touch with my 3rd grade teacher on social media (she was a young woman in the mid-70s). I recently had a bit of professional success. She found out about it and left me a comment saying she was proud of me. That made me blubber like I was still 8 years old. We never leave the people of our childhoods behind; they are always with us.
And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aussie105
(5,530 posts)They just go about their business quietly, unlike some.
Nice story!
Wounded Bear
(58,820 posts)calimary
(81,637 posts)I had one of those when I was a little kid! LOVED it!
This one's in really great shape for being that old!
iluvtennis
(19,925 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,880 posts)I get to watch them 3 days a week.
Twins are amazing. Everyone in the family jokes about how did any of us ever raise a single child - it would be so boring.
They were a Caesarian birth, but the first one taken out insists thats she is the big sister, which really irritates the other.
FakeNoose
(32,991 posts)orleans
(34,115 posts)nice tweet
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Wash this toy with strong soap and check to make sure everything is still safe and attached. Plastic deteriorates over time. Some of these old toys have unsafe levels of lead, cadmium and mercury etc. The toy might be a good decoration!
Dad out
Ziggysmom
(3,444 posts)in a young child's life; they deserve much more respect and compensation than they receive.
Woodwizard
(854 posts)My Vo Tech cabinet making teacher was great, besides my time in the Army I have been professionally in the woodworking field a lot of credit goes to him, he passed a long time ago but I still remember him and his patience and teaching ability.
That is great your teacher kept it, must of had a lot of meaning to her.
Conjuay
(1,457 posts)My wife has been a teacher for forty wears and, regrettably, has not stayed close to any of her students. She will often be recognized in a store, but each year brings a sea of new faces; and forty years can make any eight year old impossible to recognize.
You twins look beautiful.
Loved hearing part of your journey.
Upthevibe
(8,122 posts)...........As a teacher, I'm not crying....those damn onions....
Those babies are precious....