I was looking through a box of dolls in an antique store in Jefferson when I found this tiny doll, wearing only a pair of handmade jeans, with a familiar rainbow streak in her hair.
I have been looking for this doll for a long time. I was calm, but I started rummaging faster, hoping to find her dress. Did find it. I was so excited.
Her hair was a wreck and her face was dirty. She had been in a box of wretched bargain dolls and required some fixing up. Glorious with triumph, we went to the drug store down the street. Nathan got a soda and a toothbrush; I got a fine-toothed comb for Lady Lovelylocks. We went back to the hotel room and I spent hours savoringly fixing her up.
Her hair is so incredibly soft. There is only one other doll I remember with hair this pillowy, and that is Barbie of the Sensations. (She is on my list!)
I had it tied down in the pictures, but have since unbound it, and it looks wonderful, has acquired a little natural curl but no frizz.
One of her Pixietail "handlebars" was cracked and falling apart, so I trimmed it off.
She needs Pixietails and shoes.
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