I Bought An American Girl Doll At Age 34 & Here’s What Happened
Like many ’90s girls with single-parent households and Jewish grandmothers, I wasn’t allowed to have an American Girl doll. The American Girls, if you’re unfamiliar, were a book series and doll collection featuring fictional, young female characters from a variety of eras in American history. The books were written at an elementary reading level, but still made you feel like you were grown up, reading about history and actually enjoying it. You felt like you were living alongside those girls, in their specified moments in time. Which made the brand’s dolls and their highly detailed accessories so enticing. Enticement was all I was allowed.
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