Kerstin Hellmann
week02 "Something from your childhood that you still own"
This is Lars the Bear. He is the only childhood toy that will always stay with me, even when I moved country seven years ago.
For the photo challenge I could have placed it on a nicer background or maybe posed it cutely on the bed, but I thought it's nicer to show it the way it's displayed all the time - on my mantlepiece, right beside the picture of its truthful owner, my late baby brother Lars.
He got this teddy on his first birthday, handmade by his nurses, where he spent over 3 and half years in and out of hospital, before passing away only two weeks before his 4th birthday in 1987.
Back than, being not yet 6 years of age myself, I didn't fully understand what had happened, but I remember asking my mum, if I could have his teddy, so that I could pretend it was my baby brother whenever I hugged the bear.
week02 "Something from your childhood that you still own"
This is Lars the Bear. He is the only childhood toy that will always stay with me, even when I moved country seven years ago.
For the photo challenge I could have placed it on a nicer background or maybe posed it cutely on the bed, but I thought it's nicer to show it the way it's displayed all the time - on my mantlepiece, right beside the picture of its truthful owner, my late baby brother Lars.
He got this teddy on his first birthday, handmade by his nurses, where he spent over 3 and half years in and out of hospital, before passing away only two weeks before his 4th birthday in 1987.
Back than, being not yet 6 years of age myself, I didn't fully understand what had happened, but I remember asking my mum, if I could have his teddy, so that I could pretend it was my baby brother whenever I hugged the bear.