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A Calgary family on a trip to Chinook Centre experienced the lows and highs last week, when a stuffie went missing.

On Monday, Sophia Ricci Cruz and her four-year-old daughter were in the mall’s food court at around 1:30 p.m., eating, but when they left their table, in front of New York Fries and Nam, her daughter forgot to take her stuffie.

It wasn’t just any old stuffie, either, Cruz said, in an email to CTV News. It was a Jellycat Bunny that she’d had since she was born in December, 2020.

Cruz posted about the missing stuffie on Facebook, and reached out to Chinook’s lost and found.

The bad news was that the Jellycat Bunny was AWOL.

The good news was that maybe it was time for a new, free stuffie.

“Though we have yet to find (the stuffie) Fufu,,” Cruz wrote, “the wonderful administration in Chinook Centre reached …