It looks so delicious, but if it’s soft and cuddly, we’ll take that too!
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The RN24 Giant Bear Incident: Eight-foot-tall teddy twins appear in our office, steal our hearts
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Evie Nyan
Nov 20, 2015
Working at RocketNews24 sort of desensitizes you to craziness, but even we were surprised when we found out our two new coworkers are gigantic eight-foot-tall teddy bears. Things just got weirder as we heard the story of how they found their way to our office, but hey, it’s not like we mind having two new cuddly heartthrobs to share our workspace with!
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