Addy is truly an American girl. Her experiences of moving from being a slave

person to a free person really help incorporate what the promise of America is.

Hi, I'm Rachel Anton, and you're listening to ICYMI. In case you missed it,

Slates Podcast about internet culture. Hello, hello, ICYMI. Hi, yes. I am still

refusing to use ICYMI guys because I don't like rhyming puns unless it's

cockney slang. And even then, it's it's iffy. It's iffy. I hope all y'all are

doing as well as possible in this the most interminable month of the year.

January always seems to go on for way too long. Speaking of things that have gone

on for a long time, a little update on the co-host search, it is it's still

going on just just like January. Yes, we are working very hard to get me and

y'all a consistent co-host. In fact, I think it's pretty much our only

resolution for 2023. Hopefully, good news will be coming soon, but in the meantime,

I do want to thank y'all once again for sticking around during this transitional

period, which has been weirder and longer than I think any of us plan for. But you

know, that's life weird and long. That's enough housekeeping. Back to more

important topics like my childhood. Yes, we're talking about my childhood today.

Y'all are going to be my therapist, not really because we're talking about a

very specific part of my childhood, which is the American Girl Dolls. We've

talked about them before back when their Instagram account accidentally outed

one of their dolls as gay, but somehow these historical dolls continue to

cause discourse. The discourse's time is a lot less fun, but before we get into

that, for those of y'all who are unfamiliar, the American Girl Doll line was

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