The Ghost of Christmas Past

Apr 17, 2012 by

I just had the most painful memory.  I was reading Firefly Lane and a passage referenced some dolls called “Liddle Kiddles.”  I began thinking of the many barbies and dolls I had as a little girl and my thoughts came to rest on the Sunshine Family.  And then my tears started to flow. It was Christmas time and I must have been around seven years old.  There was only one thing that I wanted for Christmas that year and that was the Sunshine Family dolls.  They were the fun, hippy, anti-Barbies that radiated all things flower child, nature, and love.  They were also everywhere in the commercials, and my friends and I strategized over how to optimize our chances of getting the dolls.  I did my part in working on my parents through good...

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