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A Case of the Human Condition: Even Barbie Has to Turn Fifty Sometime

March 1, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Barbie doesn’t look it, of course, but this month the busty, slim-hipped fashion doll turns 50. Read all about it in Mary Jo Murphy’s article  in today’s New York Times. Posting here tomorrow — “Dolls and Daughters,” what happened when my daughter, then seven, and I tried to play with her Barbie.

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