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Originally Posted by mobertol
Oh dear, not again -I had no idea....   |
Don't worry it's an annual tradition.
Like stuffing.
You've just stuffed us a little early this year, that's all.
Let's expand it.
What's the best present you've bought for someone else?
My mum was poor as a church mouse growing up, but had one much loved secondhand doll. As an older teenager she gave it to a young relative, who broke, then lost it.
About ten years ago I saw the exact same doll, that I recognised from seeing photographs of, at a fair in Chelsea Town Hall. Life sized baby doll, made from something like bakelite, eyes that opened, and a 'Mama' mechanism when you winded her. The poor mite was naked, so I bought some passably period clothes from a baby linen stall in Tooting market.
I was too embarrassed, to say I was buying clothes for a doll, when they asked me what size the baby was, so I said it was for a friend, whose baby turned out to be 'premature sized', apparently.
Mum cried when she opened it on Christmas morning, and couldn't believe I'd found the same doll, she'd loved as a child.
That made me happy.
She's now called Chelsea. The original one was named Sal.
Chelsea sounded a bit better than Baby Tootin'.