Toys Come Home (2011)

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Genres: Fiction
Or maybe eight or nine weeks. Or possibly four. StingRay is not very good at measuring time. Though she wouldn’t want to admit that out loud. “It’s been a bunch of weeks, anyway,” she thinks to herself. “I know it’s been a bunch of weeks.” As a birthday surprise, the Girl’s parents buy her a new walrus—exactly the same model as before. It arrives in a cloud of pink tissue paper on the morning that is both the party and the Actual Day of Birth. The walrus is fat and walnut brown, just like Bobby Dot was, but its eyes have a flat unfocused look that make it seem more like furniture than someone to care about. The Girl tries to love the new walrus. When she first receives it, she gives it a big hug, and in the days after, StingRay sees her cuddle it and talk to it and put necklaces on it, but never for very long. Always, after a couple of minutes, the walrus is flung to the floor in favor of something else. The Girl can’t even think of a name for it—just calls it No-Name Walrus.
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