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Cabbage Patch Kid


Cabbage Patch Kids

Made in their thousands, each doll managed to maintain its identity with an individual name and birth certificate.

They were apparently the brainchild of an American art student who, in order to pay his tuition fees, made dolls and sold them at local craft fairs. As interest grew he came up with the idea of adoption.

They were so popular there just weren't enough on the shelves. The previous Christmas, parents had camped outside malls and toy shops in America (where else?) to make sure they could take one home for their little darling.


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