Comments on: Raggedy Ann (my mom again)

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:20:52 +0000

Your story is beautiful…I guess as much because of your ability to express it as that so many of us have similar memories…I am even more touched because on reading it, my daughter forwarded it to me and told me I was her “empathetic mom”. One day your experience will allow you to be that for your child (similar to how your mom learned it)…and that will further help heal the hurt…

By: Eden

Eden — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:48:34 +0000

Wow. I can really relate to this story (you).

Amen for good mothers, eh?

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:52:17 +0000

oops. “Bore” you with the whole tale

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:51:55 +0000

I won’t boew you with the whole tale (which I could never tell as compellingly as you have), but the short version of my story is quite similar, except it was the Evil Stepmother (now, quite thankfully, gone) who distroyed the one toy I loved and cared about more than anything (an “antique” (/pre-Disney) Winnie-the-Pooh which was mine, and had been my father’s before me, and would have been my child’s, if I have one. And she did it just because it meant so much to me, using an excuse like “it smelled musty and was stained.”

Sigh. That one still hurts.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:33:06 +0000

Wow. What a powerful story.

I can’t imagine a parent destroying something their child loved, just because they loved it.

I can’t imagine being told “gather up some of your toys to give to your parent’s “new” family”

However, I DID really relate to the “happy times” where Raggedy Ann was the matriarch of your soft-toy clan. I did very similar things when I was a kid - there were families, and groups of friends, and toys that were more “knowledgable” than others and provided “advice”…it makes me smile to remember it.