(Smile File) Woman Runs Hospital for Teddy Bears in Bad Shape

An incredible story of why this woman cares so much about Teddy Bears!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, you're gonna love this. A woman named Ruth Asman
is on a mission to save cherished stuffed teddy bears.
For nearly two decades, she's been running a teddy bear
hospital and spa right out of her home, and yes,
it's exactly as it sounds. Ruth handles everything from petititacks
to missing eyes to bears that have simply been hugged

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into oblivion. She's done fur grafts, replaced eyeballs, restuffed floppy limbs,
even hunted through thrift stores to find the perfect fabric match.
If she's not happy with the result, she'll take the
whole bear apart and start again. It isn't just the sewing,
it's the stories that go along with the teddy bears,
and Ruth is training someone to eventually take over the

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business because she says she'll keep fixing bears as long
as she possibly can, but then she wants the legacy
to continue. Now, that is something else.