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Dear Doll Doctur
This is Old Bear riting to U and this letter may not be very good cus
it is the first one I have tried. But I wanted to tell U Thank U for
all of the nice things U did for me when I was in ur hospital.
I shure wus skared when I heard that I was going to have to go to a
HOSPITAL to get my arm fixed and to have some new eyes cus I really
didn't know what a hospital was and I didn't want to get away from where
I felt safe and comfortable. But I couldn't show that I was skared
cus my little nephew ENBY (New Bear) thinks I am the bravest and wisest
bear in the wurld and I didn't want to make him feel bad. But I
shouldn't have been skared cus U were real nyce and didn't hardly hurt
me at all and I met a lot of nyce new bears who were really sick and
they didn't complain.
Now I am home and everything is so different now that I can see again.
The purty lady who picked me up from ur house sat me in the front seat
of her car and we tuk a long, long ride to what she called downtown and
I saw the man I live with for the first time in a long, long time and
then she tuk me back to her house and I sat out in the car and luked at
the trees and the sky and the birds and the flowers and luked and luked
and luked. Then she brought me back to where my man and me live and I
luked and luked and luked cus I had never seen our howse before. And I
saw Enby for the first time and I saw the kittys named Toby and Sonny
for the first time and I saw the box with the pitchers in it for the
furst time and I luked and luked and now my new eyes are all tired from
luking.
Enby thinks that I know everything, but he understands that it has been
a long time since I could see things and he helps me member what sum
things are. He told me that my purty nu neck ribbon is yellow and his
is red and that I am brown all over and he is sumpn kalled choklut
brown all over and the kitty named Toby is sort of scruffy (whatever
colur that is) and the other kitty is yellow and white.
Things shure r differunt here in this big tgown than wat I remember
seeing back when I lived in a little town as a cub. My man wus jist a
little boy then; now he has gotten big. I remember little buildings,
now they are great big and there are lots and lots of cars going back
and forth with humans in them and I didn't see any bears at all. There
are all kinds of noises that I didn't no wat they were before and now I
can see what causes them. That big buzzing noyse that cums over my
head lots of tymes is a great big airplane insted of the little ones
with two wings and a fan that I member frum wen I wus little.
Well, Doll Doctor, my eyes are tired from luking and riting so I had
better quit riting and go rest before more TV comes on. Enby wants me
to tell him more of my ventures at the Doll Hospital. Say Hello to
all of my frends who are still there and U tell them that I am home and
reel xcited about my new eyes. And my fixed up arm dusn't bother me
hardly at all.
Your gud frend,
Old Bear