![]() ![]() That’s why I was strangely comforted by the idea of having my surgery/being incarcerated in a hospital/prison that’s so gigantic it’s practically its own city.Īs we got closer to my surgery date, an entire village of friends and family (including so many people volunteering to help there were some I wasn’t sure I actually knew) scurried to organize lists and schedules for all the things I would need help with post-op - meals, rides for my kids, rides for me down to Boston for follow-ups, grocery shopping, laundry, even “Sooz sitting” (which would include things like keeping me company, washing my hair, helping me with surgical drains and most importantly making sure I didn’t try to make a break for it insisting I was ready to go back to work early), I felt a strange, burgeoning sense of calm infusing my thinking most days. Our love for the region is so expansive and generous we can afford to be wickedly audacious about it. In fact, if you can’t appreciate the irony of how much we love kvetching about: the winters/living in the city/commuting to the city/fighting traffic in the city/parking in the city/traffic circles/parking tickets on Newbury Street/the summers/how slow the T has become/how high Sox tickets are now/how bad our allergies are this spring (extra points if you do this on the very first nice day of the season)/how Facebook left Boston for Silicon Valley/how one of the Jordan’s furniture guys went Hollywood/anything about NY/how the autumn leaves aren’t as pretty as when we were kids…with how equally passionately we also bristle when anyone who is just visiting or who used to live here complains about the same, then you don’t understand that what we’re actually saying is that we think New England is the best place in the world to live by any standard or stretch of the imagination. Whether you’re an institution or an individual, around here if you have a vague feeling that you might actually be the butt of the joke? That’s how you know it’s love. I was having my surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, or “The Brig,” nicknamed thusly because that’s how Boston shows it cares. And if watching your innocent, naive “little girl Skipper” grow up within seconds into a bosomy teenager seems a bit much, you just turn her arm all the way around clockwise and she’s cute and young again.A double mastectomy is major surgery of a type that I had been fortunate to avoid for all of my 50 years on the planet, if you don’t count an appendectomy at 19 which I don’t because it doesn’t take two months to recover from having an infected quasi-mysterious possible filtration organ removed from one’s body. So modest, in fact, no brassiere was included. Changing Skipper simply involves grasping her delicate wrist between the forefinger and thumb and revolving her left arm all the way around counterclockwise.Īs the arm completes its 360-degree turn, Skipper grows nearly an inch taller from the waist, develops a slightly more definable posterior, and sprouts what Rubenstein calls “a modest bustline.” “We feel it may be a trend toward reflecting reality and recognizing maturity,” Joel K Rubenstein, director of marketing for Mattel explained. ![]() Officials at Mattel Toys, which manufactures the dolls, say they recognize the doll could activate a lot of curiosity in the 4-to 10-year-olds for whom it is designed, but they believe the Growing-Up Skipper has some good effects. ![]() ![]() Now, with her flat chest expanded, her curves accentuated and height boosted, she has matured past her older but still underdeveloped sister into a young woman. The smaller, under-developed younger “sister” of the Barbie doll has advanced into puberty. Now there’s a harmless way to reverse the aging process, as often and as quickly as they want.Ī little arm twisting will change a blossoming young woman into a tree-climbing pre-adolescent, and back again - provided the young “woman” is a doll. Make her grow from a young girl to a teenager in seconds!įrom the Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, Kansas) June 16, 1975įor moms and dads, children always seem to grow up too fast. Growing up Skipper: She’s 2 dolls in 1 for twice as much fun! ![]()
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