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Teddy Bears Are History’s Most Subversive Toy (Classic)

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The Teddy Bear and the Ball Game Song

We don't start looking at things as cute or nout until we're about six to eight years old, but then we have a strong preference for it. There is something inside of us that not just gravitates towards cuteness, but will literally alter the things around us to become more acute. As a result, our natural instinct, at least in some venus, is to soften. And so it was with the teddy bear, an object that once struck fear into the hearts of moralists and was then transformed the platonic ideal of cuteness.

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