I have this picture of me that I can show you from childhood of it's me and my sister

and this is probably I showed it to a friend the other day and she was like this is the peak

90s my sister's wearing a choker and overalls we were kind of choker like the like a sort

of black plastic choker yes yes the kind of expandy stretchy ones yes yeah pre pre

goth which she did go into her email phase shortly thereafter um and then I was dressed

in salt like my whole soccer uniform was getting out of soccer practice and under one

arm I have my soccer ball and under the other I have Flisty Merriman okay Hannah we just

finished making two enormous comprehensive episodes about American girl that we did the brand

story the history the making of yeah and as we were doing this basically ever when I talked to

was like oh American girl so I decided to I was visiting my hometown this summer and I decided

I wanted to go to the library to see if I could find the books on the shelves where they were

in my memory there they are okay okay wait so we have the old original and the

their students and happy birthday and meet for listening so there's okay the birthday is different

from the surprise maybe there isn't a surprise one I don't know but this looks like oh this looks

like like these are the original let me just um August 98 so this is like I would have read

and Hannah yes they were still there just like the exact copies in the same spot in the same spot

and I went with my friend Molly Mollie Schaefer who also was super into this project

a peek into the past I remember that they would say I in the

and she was the one who came up with a question which doll were you the question question

this experience was just one of many many many people who when I told them about American girl

or when I posted about it on Instagram as one is want to do um responded with just these incredible

comments or rich memories or telling me you know I learned about wealth from American girl I

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