"Befriending Barbie," is a story, about Shari who goes to a Barbie Convention, thinking it was just a silly thing that these people do. When she got to the convention she just thought that the convention was about a bunch of ladies wearing pink and all giggly, googly and happy all the time. However, when she got to sit down with some of the women and got to observe this "Barbie Convention" she went to, she had changed. She wasn't so judgemental and she became a little Barbieteer at the end of her story.
Ms. Caudron when in with not really knowing these people behind the barbie. People who have emotions, and people who have real lives. What touched me the most while I was reading the story was when one of the ladies had her son killed in a shooting at school and it was her son who led her to her barbie friends, (who were really her life savers).
"In September 1999, there was a shooting at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth in which several kids were killed. He murdered seven people that day, including my son Justin. He was my only child. But my Barbie friends, you wouldn't believe what they did. They called or wrote to me every day. They sent me money. They also contacted Mattel. Can you believe that? They contacted Mattel and the company sent me a special collectible Barbie and a handwritten note the first Christmas after Justin died."
This lady is very blessed she gots the most wonderful friends in the world and she loves what she does and that is collecting Barbie dolls and I'm glad that Shari got to feel that same wonderful happy feeling that Judy feels all the time.
Monday, October 29, 2007
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