She is coco brown with curly hair. I can rotate her arms, legs, head. She is beautiful. Only the Black little girls had the black doll. When I grew up, I found out the white little girls had Barbie dolls, skinny and white and can be held in one hand. Somehow, my brown doll always made me feel beautiful.

Baby Doll
Collection: Georgetown Library
Prompt: If you could take something from your childhood (Place, landmark, feeling) and put it where you are now, what would it be?
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