I feel fortunate to have even the several items/belongings from my childhood that I've managed to have gotten from my mom or had been able to keep safe throughout the years. Only a few that I can really consider cherished and sentimental.
Of note is a Lightfoot songbook
. I had a few Lightfoot 45's and LP's, articles and intact magazines and other memoralia that are long since gone. So the songbook is the only Lightfoot item I have from my younger days. But I've collected several items since of course
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No need to mention anything else but oh well I have a small, stuffed cat (made of rabbit fur) that is the only stuffed animal I still have from my childhood. My mother gave all the rest away to needy children. The cat wasn't one I cuddled with and so it's condition isn't that of the "Velveteen Rabbit"...having had it's fur loved off of it. It's in a deteriorated state on account of age (44 years old now).
I once more or less and nonchallantly mentioned this to a very nice friend of mine who has cherished and kept a few of hers from childhood -and without skipping a beat, she handed me one of her more recent acquisitions
and I named him "Muffin II", "M2" for short. I think it's a he anyway. Well, closest I can get to having a he in my bed lol.
I am sad that my old cat had been made of real rabbit fur...especially after reading about the folks at the Burning Man who were dressed like rabbits and advocating the novelty of a "people's foot" dangling on a key chain...or something like that.