A love letter to (my) Weird Barbie: Why the defaced doll matters
poking out the top of a Jollibee doll. I regret that I wasn’t more creative with you. I should have taken more chances, tried more things.
I apologize because I don’t remember much about what you looked like. I know you were blonde and, at one point in time, had all of your limbs attached. I do remember cutting off your hair with the kitchen scissors. I took one look at your newly shaved head and stuffed you under the couch cushion because I was too embarrassed to face what I had just done.
You lived in a clear plastic bin that my mom kept in the corner of the living room. You, Ken and a small dog all face down with a handful of dried-up fruit flies and the occasional cockroach. You had a pink Vespa with your name on the side. A rectangular bed that my sister mistook for a coffin. You owned a bottle of sunscreen that I was obsessed with, a helmet I never let you wear.
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