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    What a lovely story! Great photo of you and your dad! Archived Message

    Posted by Kate in ME on 6/6/2017, 5:25 am, in reply to "My First Barbie..."


    --Previous Message--
    : Actually, I sort of have two answers for this.
    : The very first Barbie I "owned"
    : was a joint gift to my mom and me when I was
    : born.
    :
    : My mom was in high school when she saw the
    : first Barbie in our local five and ten
    : store. She thought she was a little old for
    : Barbie but liked it anyway. After
    : graduation, she moved to New York City for a
    : time where she met my father about five
    : years later. He was from this same area,
    : but she didn't know him, even though they
    : grew up about three miles apart. He spent
    : four years in the Air Force and was
    : stationed in England so after he was done
    : serving, when he came home, he moved to New
    : York as well and began working in Edison,
    : NJ. They met there through mutual friends
    : and on one of their first "dates"
    : he bought her a Barbie - a blonde #7
    : ponytail. That's how she started into
    : Barbie and when I was born, my first gift
    : from my dad was a Barbie -a blonde Talking
    : Barbie in the white vinyl bikini. I though
    : I kind of consider myself only partial owner
    : of that doll since she's still in her box,
    : just the same as the day my dad bought her
    : at the same 5 & 10 where my mom saw the
    : #1 ponytail years before.
    :
    : I still have both dolls, but have never
    : photographed them. Again, I should.
    :
    : The first Barbie I actually played with was
    : a gift from my cousin Cory when I was three
    : and he was four. It was a Ballerina Barbie.
    : He picked it out all by himself for my
    : birthday that year and was so proud of
    : himself. Somewhere in an old album, there's
    : a picture of him giving her to me and then
    : helping me open her because he couldn't wait
    : for me to see her. Our old poodle, Boomer,
    : nipped off one of her toes but otherwise,
    : she's still around but in very played with
    : shape.
    :
    : As as addition to the story, when Ed and I
    : married in Las Vegas in 2006, a few of my
    : family members either drove or flew from
    : Pennsylvania to see the wedding. Cory was
    : among the guests who flew there for the
    : ceremony. The day he arrived, he went right
    : to FAO at Caesar's Palace and bought the
    : first doll he could find - the Stolen Magic
    : Silkstone. During my wedding reception in
    : Quark's Bar, he gave me the doll as part of
    : my wedding present. All those years later,
    : he remembered which made me cry - and I
    : hadn't even cried during the wedding itself!
    :
    :
    : Really should take photos of those dolls
    : too. If only there were more hours in the
    : day.
    :
    : Although this photo is kind of old (Chicago
    : in 2004) my dad still goes with me to Barbie
    : events and helps me carry my bags.
    :
    :
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