WBUR on Mythryl: “ESSAY: "Forty years after the dolls debuted in 1986, the same year I…”

ESSAY: "Forty years after the dolls debuted in 1986, the same year I was born, they’re still selling. I think what’s kept kids captivated are the stories — the ones published by The Pleasant Company (now Mattel) and the ones we got to tell ourselves." wbur.fm/4siqdLO

wbur.fmI wanted to be plucky and brave, just like my American Girl dollWhen WBUR's Ally Jarmanning was 7 years old, she saved up $82 to purchase her very own American Girl doll. "She was brave, plucky, and self sufficient, all the traits I aspired to growing up in a sometimes chaotic home," Jarmanning writes.

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