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Sometimes, a Doll is Just a Doll

Once a year, usually around my birthday, my mother laments my childhood Barbie trauma. "I should have bought it for you," she says glumly. "You wanted it, and I should have bought it." The CNN story of Stacy McBride-Irby, who created a new line of black Barbies so that her daughter could have a doll that looked like her, did remind me of how jealous I'd been of my friend Tootie's Barbie, and how, when my mother refused to buy me the doll, I went straight to the store and spent the $4.95 myself. (Where had I gotten $4.95? I was 6. I have no idea.) But it also reminded me of something our ...

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