001 // a very bear-y christmas

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Xiaolang Li shared a photo. 12/15 near Birch Hills

A general question: has anyone ever received something from Retrospec that was intended for somebody else? Or something you were certain WASN'T yours, even if the ticket said otherwise? Because I do have memories of a bear, but it definitely was not THIS one.

((pretend this bear is 100% handmade and doesn't have the Stieff logo or the name on it's foot, okay--))

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[redarm]

whoa. talk about fluffy.

and yeah. i got this cat pillow that was meant for another guy at school.

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It's ridiculously fluffy. Whoever made this must have invested in some good quality material before they put it together. [Because, obviously, he didn't make it himself. There was absolutely no way he would have made some of these design choices.]

A cat pillow, though? [Does he... want to know about this....] Is this a common thing with Retrospec? I remember them talking a lot about their new mailboxes when I first got the app, and how it was supposed to make things easier, but maybe smaller, less important things slip through the cracks. [No, Xiaolang, this bear is actually important, YOU'RE JUST NOT AWARE OF IT YET...]

[redarm]

is it handmade?

i dunno if its common or not, it only happened to me the one time. but i know before the mailbox, our stuff would get mailed to our homes- so maybe shit would get lost sometimes along the way? who knows.

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It looks like it, yeah. There's no tags or anything on it, and the stitching is kind of weird in places, but... it looks like a lot of effort went into it, so I couldn't just leave it behind.

...ah. Yeah, if it used to be regular mail, that does seem much more likely. I guess, with this new system, it's easier not to mess up since we're the ones coming to pick it up, but... I suppose there could still be glitches. I wonder if it's more common with people you share memories with...

[redarm]

huh.

are you saying you think it belongs to someone you share memories right?

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I'm pretty sure it does, yeah. It looks like the sort of thing she would own, since she likes pink and bears and... wings on all kinds of things.

... not that I pay any attention to it, or anything like that! She just has that on a lot of her class stuff, that's all.

[XIAOLANG HE DIDN'T ASK YOU THAT]

[redarm]

[There's only one thing you can say to a denial like that one]

uh huh.

maybe it was a gift from her.