"DreadfulBitch" > wrote in message
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> On 2/7/2014 8:11 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> I'd have to look. It may be in a plastic bag in the closet along with
>> some other stuffed animals and my old Raggedy Ann doll.
>
> Every year, Christmas and birthday, I'd ask for Raggedy Ann and Raggedy
> Andy dolls. This started when i was a kid. I stopped asking a few years
> ago. Despite hearing it from me for years my mother once told me that she
> always thought I was kidding.
>
> No, can't buy them for myself. That would be wrong for me. Ann and Andy
> should be received as a gift. (-:

I had the Ann and I think my brother had the Andy. Neither of us wanted
them. I thought they looked kind of possessed and crazed. Then one year we
did a tap dance where we had those costumes. I was Ann. My mom made all of
my costumes. She had to sacrifice one leg of my brother's ski pajamas to
make my wig.