When the teddy was finished, I sent the first specism to the Wizard himself as a present and asked for a picture of him and the teddy. In January 1999 I got a letter from him---with two pictures (seen below)---in which he expressed his delight of the teddy and looks forward to the day his TeX will have a little META besides him. :-)
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