A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford.
“There’s one Statesville character who has a huge, huge following. His name is Fluffy. He’s got a straitjacket with all the chains, a canvas mask with eyeholes, a big stitched-shut grin, and stringy black hair. He was a disturbed child, and he was left alone in an abandoned asylum and ate stuffed animals, and that’s why they call him Fluffy. People bring stuffed animals specifically for this character to tear apart. I’ve seen girls bring expensive Build-A-Bear animals to him. You know how they put the heart inside the Build-A-Bears, before they sew them up? Once I found a little heart on the ground outside. I’m like, ‘You need to sew this on your costume.’
