Aw, that's sweet! I still have my Curious Georges from when I was a kid. I had 3 of them.
I kept my rubby secret from Buzz for a few years. Then he caught me rubbing my holey old pillowcase one time. He said something like, "What in the @#%# are you doing????" Once I told him, he thought it was bizarre, but immediately started calling my pillowcase the rubby.
I brought it with us on vacation once. I wanted to bring my pillows, but couldn't fit them in the suitcase. I love my pillows when they're cold too and hate to sleep on any other pillow-especially hotel pillows. We were going to Hawaii and I knew I'd need my "fix" so I put my rubby in my pocket and whipped it out on the plane and started running it through my fingers the way I do. Buzz about lost it.