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Pennies
So for some reason that I never asked about after I was grown, my parents did not want me to have Barbie dolls when I was a kid. There are so many good ideological reasons they might not have but it could also just have been the money. Anyway, my mother gave me an old doll that she had when she was a kid and told me she was called Penny. Penny had originally had clothes and maybe other things but no longer did and was, to my tiny advertising-addled mind, entirely unsatisfactory.
As an adult, I got curious about Penny and looked stuff up online and discovered that this was her.
So apparently, age-appropriate dolls did still provide opportunities to buy and buy and buy things and present a life that is about having things. But for some reason, Barbie, who now seems entirely inappropriate for little kids, took off, probably *because* of seeming so adult.
Eventually my parents were no match for the aggressive constant marketing and I begged and begged and my father's mother, naturally, bought me Barbies so I could get properly started with decades of body issues and consumerism and try to fit in with my friends and what I believed we were supposed to be. I didn't even really understand how the hell to play with dolls and they didn't interest me that much but I *had* them and eventually had a fair number. And I feel weirdly sad and guilty about rejecting Penny (although in fact I do still have her and all my childhood dolls).
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I mean, yeah! I played with them as a kid lol. Toys from my childhood are always in the back of my mind somewhere and something triggers my memory and then I randomly remember them-
photos of some of my old childhood plushies with a cute filter applied :)
2006 Shining Stars Unicorn plush - had ever since the same year it was made
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