Why I Want To Be An American Doll

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As a child I played with my CD player, my clip-it which played a clip of Brittney Spears hit me baby one more time and my Bratz dolls. The toys I remember I wanted were the action figures of the WWE wrestlers aka the Rock,the red boxing gloves and also an American Doll. My mother never bought me the fist two items because the were masculine and the American Doll was too expensive. The toys my mother played with were involved with cleaning like a fake mop or dishes. The toys she wanted were baby dolls but she did not get them because my grandmother did not have the resources to buy them ,also she wanted my mother to have a sense of being a housewife and a lady. Looking at the toys my mother bought for me and the toys my grandmother bought for

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