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Finding
My Dream Doll
Yukiko
Hattori from Japan
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Photo:
Yukiko Hattori
Several weeks later, a letter
came from an unknown Japanese
lady living in Ft. Collins,
Colorado. She had read my letter
at a Japanese bookshop in
Denver.
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Almost
10 years ago, I sent a letter to a
readers' column of a magazine. I wrote
about my dream doll which I always wanted
to find and purchase someday.
"The
doll does not need to be a luxurious one,
but she must look as if she listens when I
talk to her, like the doll, Emily, in the
book "A Little Princess".
Several
weeks later, a letter came from an unknown
Japanese lady living in Ft. Collins,
Colorado. She had read my letter at a
Japanese bookshop in Denver.
"I
got interested in your dream doll," she
wrote. "I have made bisque dolls as my
hobby for a long time. Perhaps none of my
dolls is good enough to suit your dream,
but I would be happy if one of my dolls
could join your doll family until you find
your real dream doll. Would you mind
receiving one?"
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Photo:
Yukiko Hattori
"I got interested in your
dream doll," she wrote. "I have
made bisque dolls as my hobby for
a long time. Perhaps none of my
dolls is good enough to suit your
dream, but I would be happy if
one of my dolls could join your
doll family until you find your
real dream doll. Would you mind
receiving one?"
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That
is how I got Rosa, a big bisque-headed
doll in a Victorian-styled dress with a
velvet bonnet and high, buttoned shoes.
She was very beautiful and well-made.
To
be honest, I had never imagined my dream
doll as something so aristocratic. Up to
that time, my doll family had consisted of
just an odd mixture of rather poor, old
creatures. Sometimes, their very
helplessness seemed to me the main reason
I was attracted to them.
Now,
this Rosa here was far from any kind of
poorness. She might not need anyone to
take care of her.
While
I was looking at her, she was also looking
at me—quite patiently. Besides being
beautiful, I noticed she looked
good-natured, innocent, and very
sympathetic.
"Well,
isn't she like Emily?" I asked myself. "To
have someone you can nurse is wonderful,
but you may also need somebody else who is
willing to share your problems and
pleasures. Wasn't that the quality I saw
in Emily who gave me the idea of the dream
doll in the first place?"
Soon
I set myself to write a letter to Rosa's
"biological mother" to express my sincere
gratitude. Since then, I have been blessed
with having at least one good "listener"
around me—and one in Colorado,
too!
More
about Yukiko's dolls:
Messengers
of
Friendship
| Memories
of Dolls
| Doll
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