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In retrospect, Brenda Landwehr realizes that if she really wanted to concentrate on the Shockers’ Missouri Valley Conference Tournament games last weekend in St. Louis, she should have left We Wu at home.
Every few minutes, she said, someone new would approach her at the games admiring her new WuShock hand puppet. They wanted to have a closer look. They wanted to tousle its floppy yarn hair. They wanted to know where Landwehr got We Wu, and they wanted to know right now.
“I was stopped so many times,” said Landwehr, a Shocker fan and a former state representative. “People would ask to take pictures with it. They’d say, ‘Can we hold it? Can we look at it? Where do we get one?’”
Every few minutes, she said, someone new would approach her at the games admiring her new WuShock hand puppet. They wanted to have a closer look. They wanted to tousle its floppy yarn hair. They wanted to know where Landwehr got We Wu, and they wanted to know right now.
“I was stopped so many times,” said Landwehr, a Shocker fan and a former state representative. “People would ask to take pictures with it. They’d say, ‘Can we hold it? Can we look at it? Where do we get one?’”