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Dolls of Our Lives

4: Felicity, Sweet Birthday Babyyy

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Typically the magazines we talk about are Us Weekly and People but in this episode, Mary and Allison get into the Williamsburg gunpowder plot of 1775. Book four features Felicity’s birthday and the knowledge that as she enters her double digit years, she’s fully prepared to blow the whistle on loyalists. As we explore Felicity’s new 10-year-old level interests (gardening? the guitar!?) we weigh what it means that she’s an Earth sign & a Taurus. Last but not least, we look back at the history of children’s birthday parties. https://www.theodysseyonline.com/5-perks-long-distance-friend https://www.bustle.com/p/which-american-girl-doll-you-are-based-on-your-zodiac-sign-3267558 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/the-new-age-of-astrology/550034/

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0:00.0

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

0:04.0

Proud if I want to, if I want to,

0:06.0

if I want to.

0:08.0

You would try to if it happened to you.

0:12.0

I'm Felicity Huffman and I'm prepared to pay an exorbitant sum to get my daughter into

0:20.0

rowing lessons. And my name is on Becky and I will pay 500,000 colonial

0:26.4

pounds to get my daughter Felicity into the College of William and Mary.

0:45.8

Hello everyone and welcome to episode four we made it. I'm Mary and I'm Allison

0:55.0

And this is the show where we're reliving the American Girl series one book at a time with pop culture and all kinds of fun stuff along the way. And today it is a birthday party.

0:58.0

It is Happy Birthday Felicity, which is Book 4 of 6, and this is a springtime story. You know what I always love a

1:06.0

birthday party and you know especially a 90s party because this book came out in

1:11.8

the 90s and you know like 90s kid parties were really a thing

1:17.1

unto themselves and we're going to relive some of those and get into that much later.

1:22.0

But before we do, you know, Allison, I haven't spoken to you in a week or so.

1:26.6

That's not true we text every day, but I mean, you know, face to face.

1:30.5

So what's going on with you?

1:32.4

So since we've last recorded, you know, something that's been really important in my life for now,

1:37.0

oh gosh, four years, is the case of the people against Adnan Sayed.

1:43.0

If you know me, you know this is part of my world,

1:46.0

part of what I care about, part of what I research,

1:49.0

and there's a new HBO special.

1:51.0

So you've kind of been very deep into Elizabeth Holmes and I respect that. For me it's all

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