As an only child, it's the one thing you can count and depend on that can't leave you, never offends you, you can hold when you cry, and it doesn't die. So you may think of it as a stupid stuffed toy, but some see it as the one thing in their childhood that they could trust and depend on the make them feel better and feel loved..
Sally ran to her stuffed bear after her mother told her that her dog had died.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)