and that also made me smile this morning...
Snoopy was always one of my heroes and i had a stuffed Snoopy dog animal as a kid which rarely left my side, along with a binkie that i also kept close watch on. this was a time before i knew anything about Peanuts or Snoopy or Linus and the binkies... we were kindred spirits Linus and i and didn't know it until many years later. Mom would take my binkie and use it for her ironing and i would sit under the ironing board and hold onto the corner of my binkie and feel it. i still have my binkies.

my stuffed animal companions i also have some here but i don't hold on to them any more... at least not very often...