If your children have had an object of attachment that they did not detach from for years and that precisely did not use to be the most beautiful (rather the ugliest) and that they needed yes or yes to sleep (even when it was to throw it away), surely You’ve been through really dramatic moments where the doll didn’t show up and you were dreading the moment when you had to confront your little one and tell them.
For this reason, Iván Repila’s odyssey when he gave up “The Cebrit” , his daughter Noa’s favorite stuffed animal, has struck a chord with us. so close. He shared the step by step of “such a desperate search” on his Twitter account and the thread quickly went viral. Can you imagine why?
‘The Cebrit’ is Noa’s comfort object, which she needs every night to sleep peacefully. Iván admits that he does not know how he came to the little girl’s life and that she is also “hideous” and cannot be washed.
We don’t know where The Cebrit came from. He appeared at home one day, in the girl’s hands, but no one could recognize that small, dirty and pitiful cloth. A pocha zebra, with little padding, ugly.
The girl, however, chose her from among the other soft and beautiful stuffed animals.
– Iván Repila (@IvanRepila) January 4, 2021
However, Noa adores her, so if she disappears “she cries and screams until ‘The Cebrit’ appears” and she often “hides”, although she is usually close or so was until now.
The second rule of The Cebrit is that The Cebrit is always closer than you think.
Until today.
– Iván Repila (@IvanRepila) January 4, 2021
When it was time to put the little girl to bed and the zebra did not appear, Iván says that he and his mother began to despair. And they searched and searched, but they did not find her in the usual or unusual places. How the situation sounds to me! In my case it was a stuffed black panther that roared at first and at the end only emitted pity to see it in such a sorry situation. The llantina we had the day we forgot it at my mother’s house and had to ask her to send it to us by express courier!
As the afternoon wore on, my wife and I, increasingly tense, spent time between games looking around the house for The Cebrit. But The Cebrit wasn’t in any of the usual places.
So we have been forced to look elsewhere.
– Iván Repila (@IvanRepila) January 4, 2021
And after looking in the most unlikely places, they remembered that the grandmother had been cleaning, so even she went to where she had donated to see if ‘La Cebrit’ was there. But “the unnamable” , as the parents called the beloved teddy in front of their child so as not to arouse suspicion, did not appear.
We have communicated the situation by wassap and my mother-in-law has returned from some errands at full speed. The tension at home was obvious. The girl did not know what, but she knew that something fat, serious, cosmic was happening.
– Iván Repila (@IvanRepila) January 4, 2021
And I really can imagine them stirring the whole house. I even got to take the garbage bags out of the container and reach into them in search of the black panther …
From there, the three as savages, chaos.
We have raised bedspreads, mattresses, bed bases. Carpets, boxes, pictures. I have reviewed the organic garbage, the plastic one, the cardboard one. We have looked in the washing machine, the cupboards, the refrigerator.
– Iván Repila (@IvanRepila) January 4, 2021
The dreaded moment arrives: tell the girl
Nobody wants the time to go to bed, when the object of attachment does not appear, but after four hours of frantic searching for Ivan and his wife, it was time to talk to Noa. And how do you make the news hurt as little as possible?
We started to take off her clothes. My wife and I sobbing discreetly, glancing at each other, wondering in which container, in which garbage bag, where we had failed.
The girl starts screaming Eita, Eita, like every night.
We fell apart.
– Iván Repila (@IvanRepila) January 4, 2021
But when guilt sweeps away and “what a bad father you are” corrodes you because of your dismissal, ‘The Cebrit’ appeared. He was closer than any of them imagined: waiting to go to sleep with his owner.
And when turning the pajamas …
– Iván Repila (@IvanRepila) January 4, 2021
A pajamas that we all had in our hands, because it bothered, about three hundred times during the search …
– Iván Repila (@IvanRepila) January 4, 2021
Fortunately, as Ivan recounts, the fearsome adventure ended well and the girl was able to sleep peacefully next to her beloved stuffed animal, her treasure, no matter how ugly it may be for the rest, and without being aware of the nightmare that her parents have lived through.
And my daughter, who has not learned practically anything, is now sleeping peacefully in her crib, accompanied by that doll so dirty that it only has black stripes and very black stripes.
– Iván Repila (@IvanRepila) January 4, 2021
And you? Do you have a similar story to share as the followers of the tweeter have done? We are looking forward to meeting you.
My daughter Martina (now 20 years old) did not separate from her stuffed Saint Bernard dog named Kongo. She slept with him, took him on vacation and also to school. As he caused a stir among her classmates, her teacher called me and told me that Kongo would be expelled from school.
– Maria Gabriela (@GabyBustriazo) January 6, 2021
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