My Most Memorable Toy

My most memorable toy is a stuffed elephant I received as a gift after I became an adult. My daughter and I stopped at a "moving sale" when there were almost no people there. Just the owners. And the old lady wanted to show Pretty and I something. (Pretty was 5 or 6 years old at the time.) She took us into the house and showed us a room full of stuffed toys. But, by the door into the room was a sealed cardboard boy. She opened the box and pushed a human baby doll into Pretty's arms and the stuffed elephant into my arms. We wandered all over their property for several hours looking at everything they wanted to sell, carrying the babies with us. When Pretty and I were ready to leave, we offered the babies back to the lady, thanking her for showing them to us. She wouldn't take them, telling me that they were gifts because she knew we'd take good care of them. (Apparently the babies belonged to one of their children who had gotten them as gifts when he was a small child.) The babies sit in a stuffed chair in our living room. We both talk to them if something is bothering us. Things seem to come around fine for us after talking with the babies. Our babies. Photo is mine.

A white Teddy Bear that I still have, it is so cute.

I had many stuffed animals to enjoy.

My most memorable toy were paper dolls. When I was a kid, Barbie dolls were not available yet. Paper dolls are figures cut out of paper or thin card, with separate clothes, also made of paper, that are usually held onto the dolls by paper folding tabs. I loved to design the clothes for the dolls.