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The Teddy Bear Doctor Who Has Been Saving Beloved Toys

There is a home where the walls are lined with button eyes, spare fur and tiny stuffed animal parts, and where a seamstress named Ruth Hasman has been quietly repairing beloved childhood toys for nearly two decades. She calls her operation the Bearland Teddy and Stuffy Hospital, and the patients she receives arrive from all across North America in every imaginable condition: chewed up by dogs, missing limbs, missing eyes, leaking stuffing, or simply worn down by years of being held by someone who loved them too much. Hasman offers fur grafts, eyeball replacements, stuffing top-ups and full spa treatments, and she has repaired thousands of stuffed animals during her retirement. The oldest bear she has ever worked on was 115 years old, having passed through five generations of a single family before reaching her door.

What Hasman says she loves most is not the technical challenge but the stories that arrive with each toy. Every animal that comes to her brings a piece of someone’s history: a bear inherited from a grandparent, a stuffed companion that carried someone through a hard year at university, a childhood toy too important to throw away and too damaged to keep. One recent client sent in a plush golden retriever she had gotten during a difficult stretch of university life and held onto for ten years. The toy arrived so deflated it looked like a piece of spaghetti, with half its body flopped sideways. It left looking almost exactly as it had the day it was new. The client said she was honestly shocked. For Hasman, that reaction is the whole point: in a world that tends to discard things, she has spent her retirement building a small, joyful practice around the belief that some things, and the memories sewn into them, are absolutely worth saving.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/teddy-bear-doctor-9.7146453

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