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Cabbage Patch Fever
OMG, Cabbage Patch Kids are back!
Not the new-fangled corn-silk-haired dolls or those freaky premies, but the old-school cabbies with yarn for hair. 
When the dolls were released in 1983, my dad was among the mass of parents, at a Toys R Us off Biscayne Blvd and 125th St., in the queue to "adopt" a Cabbage Patch Kid.
Rachel is still with me. After years of living on a closet shelf, she now has a loving home in my daughter's toy chest.
Baby loves to pluck Rachel from the chest and drag her (by the hair) around the room, stopping to kiss the doll's cheek or sit on her stomach.
Since the Cabbage Patch phenomenon, there has been mania over Barney, Tickle Me Elmo and Dora the Explorer.
What doll did your kid HAVE to have?
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Comments
i HAD LOTS AND LOTS OF CABBAGE PATCH KIDS WHEN I WAS A CHILD. NOW I AM HAPPY TO SAY THAT BOTH OF MY DAUGHTERS ONE 14 AND THE OTHER 8 HAVE BOTH HAD THE CHANCE TO LOVE THE VERY SAME DOLLS THAT I DID.AND THEY ARE THE BEST DOLLS FOR YOUNG GIRLS THEY HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF CHILD HOOD IN EACH OF THEM AND THEY SMELL SO GOOD.THEY DON'T NEED ALL THOSE OPVERLY EXPLICIT CLOTHING MOST DOLLS USUALLY HAVE. CABBAGE PATH KIDS ARE LIKE A CHILDHOOD MUST HAVE.I LOVE THEM.....AND SO DO MY GIRLS....
Posted by: HOLLY | February 22, 2008 12:51 PM
I too still have my Cabbage Patch doll. And I still remember his name: Les David Sparky. Alas, my 3-year-old son has no interest in my doll collection, but he has taken his father's Hot Wheels collection as his own!
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Alanna
Posted by: Alanna | February 16, 2009 9:55 AM