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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