6 Chapter 6

It wasn’t very big. Or heavy.

He slid his hand down the side and fingered the brown tape, hooked his fingernail under a loose piece, and started scratching, peeling it away bit by bit. When it was loose enough to clasp between his thumb and index finger, he grabbed the end and pulled it all the way off.

Like a Band-Aid off a wound.

Before he had time to change his mind, he opened the flap and looked down in the box.

His old snuggly bear perched happily on the rest of the contents.

“Bear-Bear!” He smiled and hugged it close. It was even rattier than Casey remembered, with only one black beady eye and one of its ears half torn off. Momma had offered to stitch it back on at the time of the bicycle accident that had injured Bear-Bear, but the thought of her stabbing his beloved friend with a needle had made him cry.

He giggled at the memory. “I guess it didn’t heal on its own, old friend,” he said and kissed the bear on its black nose.

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