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A new American Girls Doll

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As i posted in an earlier post, growing up i always loved the American Girl Dolls. Sadly being seen as a boy i never got to own one or have a matching outfit or have the experience that so many girls my age had. Today American Girls introduced a new doll after my own hear. Luciana Vega an 11 year old girl who wants to be an astronaut. Besides the basic (and in my opinion really cute )dress seen here she will have a space suit and a Space Camp flight suit as well as space themed accessories available. As I've said before I always wanted to be an astronaut growing up. Imagine that news story "First Transgendered Astronaut". I also attended Space Camp 7 times so needless to say Luciana is the American Girl doll i always wanted but never existed until now.

American Girls

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When i was in elementary school a new line of dolls was introduced called the American girls collection. At first they had 3 all from different peiods in history each featured a series of books about their lives each had a matching doll. And Each had various outfits from their time period. The coolest thing about them was their were matching outfits for the girl who owned one available as well. Each year our school librarian featured the books and dolls in the library and encouraged students boys and girls alike to read them, She tried to get the boys to read saying what good stories they were especially for someone like me who loved history. Most boys didn't bother but i like the other girls in my class enjoyed them. I read a couple of Molly's books set in World War 2. As much as i really enjoyed the books thought I really wanted a doll and matching outfits like some of my classmates had. Sadly since i was seen as a boy to most of the world it was never to be. The American ...

A second missed oppurtunity

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Growing up even feeling like a girl and knowing i should be a girl I could also be a tomboy. I still played with many boy toys like was expected. I enjoyed playing in the outdoors and could be somewhat rough and tumble. But I also liked some of the girlier things too. Besides the before mentioned liking Care Bears and Rainbow Brite I loved dolls as well. From an early age i loved all things space and when they came out with an astronaut Barbie and Astronaut Cabbage Patch kid dolls i was dying to own both. But could never bring myself to ask for either because even at that age i'd been told boys don't play with dolls. Then on a visit to my female cousin's home in North Carolina all we had to play with were girl's toys and i admitted to her mother also a cousin of mine that I loved playing Barbies and she asked me if i'd like her to buy me one and send it to me back home. At first i jumped on it and when asked which one and since astronaut Barbie was no long...