"Goodnight Billy Moon"

Christopher Robin Milne called himself Billy Moon. "Moon" is what "Milne" sounds like when coming from the marbled mouth of a child.

He was supposed to be a girl named Rosemary.

He grew up with nannies and scheduled time to see his busy parents after breakfast, tea and before bed, where he told them stories of his adventures with his friends - his stuffed animals and toys.

Before he was ten, his parents stopped spending time together, so he scheduled separate time with each of them.

His father cataloged his childhood through little known stories you've probably never heard, "Winnie the Pooh."

He liked the stories at first, for they were his, but the kids at school started to make fun of him, and he grew to resent his father for sharing his stories with other kids.

By the time he tried to join WWII, he resented his father for sharing his childhood adventures with the whole world. They were no longer his.

He could never forgive his father for that, even in 1956, when his father was near death and there would be no one to feel the consequences of Billy's resentment, he visited Alan only once.

A few months later Billy had a daughter named Clare - she had cerebral palsy.

With Alan gone, Walt Disney had his hands on Pooh by 1961, and for Billy all was lost.

His mother refused to see him, and she died in 1971.

Billy owned a bookstore with his cousin/wife for many years.

Billy suffered from muscle weakness, Myasthenia gravis, for many years.

Billy died in his sleep in 1996 on April 20th.

Here's a link to a comic with the saddest Christopher Robin, Goodnight Billy Moon.

Here's a little preview.