Jesus in all his glory...mint in box!
Jesus in all his glory...mint in box!
If you think this is a religion thing, you've got another think coming. You must not know me very well. This is about jesus, a.k.a. Baby Brother Tender Love. He was a very 70's doll - anatomically correct - and I got him for Christmas in 78 or so. I not only gave him water so his little bladder could work, I gave him too much water. Maybe I gave him juice. Eventually he got the equivalent of a bladder infection and was relegated to being the baby jesus for me and my sisters when we played Nativity around December-time. The name "Jesus" stuck.
Jesus was connected with a miracle, though, in the mid to late eighties, when my sister discovered his true sprinkler-like talents. Someone unclogged his trachea and my sister went mad. She'd fill him with water, put him on the floor, and take a flying leap onto his stomach, sending an arc of water through the air.
Our happiness with jesus was sadly cut short in the early nineties. I was looking for Jesus in our apartment but could not find him. I wanted to ask my mother where Jesus was but she was talking to my very religious aunt in the kitchen, so I indicated she should come speak to me in another room. "Where's Jesus?" I remember inquiring of her, and what she told me was roughly this: She had been picking up toys a while back and Jesus was one of those toys. When she picked up him, she squeezed him in the stomach and he 'breathed' in her general direction. The air was not pleasant smelling and indicated to her that Jesus had a case of mildew from the moisture in his stomach, so she threw him out. She concluded her explanation, saying, "Jesus is in a landfill somewhere."
I was taken aback but what can you do when Jesus has a stomach full of mold? My sisters were eventually informed and they were also dejected, but years later the wounds have healed and my mother did the humane thing. We still have the box for Jesus and it holds Christmas tree ornaments, and I am always watching eBay for a new Jesus. The search is never over.
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