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<\/p>\nTEARS were flowing on The Repair Shop last night as expert Amanda Middlemarch broke down after reuniting a five-year-old boy with a family heirloom toy, which was the only thing to survive a harrowing house fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The BBC show revisited a classic episode from Season 7 last night and saw guest Jody bring her damaged childhood toy to the Repair Shop in the hope that Amanda and Julie Tatchell could work their magic on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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When Jody presented Amanda, Julie, and host Jay Blades with the \u201ccrispy\u201d toy dog, she revealed his name was Sad Sad and that he was a beloved treasure from her past.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s the toy that came everywhere with me. He came on a lot of family holidays with me as a child and he had his own little passport which I made,\u201d she recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And he\u2019s continued to be an important part of her as she\u2019s grown up and had her own family, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was there when I bought my children back from the hospital for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eventually the toy dog was passed down to her five-year-old son Noah, admitting \u201che\u2019s been a source of comfort to him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s taken him to bed when he\u2019s a bit upset about something. He\u2019s always been there,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, the dog was damaged in a tragic house fire a year earlier. The family managed to save the dog but lost almost everything else. Amanda and Julie promised to do their very best to restore the toy dog, but revealed it would be a challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe know how much he means to you and to Noah, so we\u2019ll put our thinking caps on,\u201d Julie said, but Amanda admitted there were parts of the beloved toy that just couldn\u2019t be saved.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/crop-24452370.jpg\")
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