Only one who is deaf can understand the loving way I talked to my dolls,to the stones, to birds and animals.

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But for Garrett, access to dolls can only achieve so much in terms of promoting a positive self image.

CNN: Talking dolls challenge racial stereotypes

The feather's unceremonious fall from a symbol of wealth and elegance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to one of vulgarity--from the hats of fashionable women to the heads of Kewpie dolls--is not only a story of the fickleness of the fashion industry.

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However, by the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of groups were masking as Baby Dolls.

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