A doll is a doll is a doll.

If you are female, chances are you had at least one doll in your lifetime.   Some had only the one, sometimes, much loved, sometimes tossed aside for more exciting things - like climbing trees, tag, or hide and seek.

Whether your doll was

  Classic Barbie, of the frizzy bangs and red lips            or   Modern girl Barbie

a tiny one of  jointed bisque

 or a little wild haired troll

 a miniature version of America's little sweetheart

 one of the gang that could be found beneath the Cabbage Patch

a  American Girl  dream come true, a minature replica of herself,

 bits of spare cloth and strings of red yarn turned into  a classic lovey named Anne

the sweet little rascal known as Kewpie

 a classic little baby that wets and cries,

 a almost life sized pal named Patti,

 an original Madame Alexander,

or a Chatty little Cathy who said "I love you!" with a pull of a string,

                                                     

or paper dolls that you spent hours meticulously cutting out and keeping in shoeboxes,

  or a set of nesting Russian mamas,


I bet you loved that doll with all of your little girl heart.   Although I had more than 9 of these dolls over the course of my childhood I loved a little rubber doll named Jamie, the very best!  She was lost  during a move when I was 4 or 5.  I still remember her and she remains my very favorite childhood toy.

Did you have a favorite doll when you were little?  Are you lucky enough to still have her?