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the Sunshine Family? I had a Sunshine Family! (This would have been mid-1970s.) They came with this cool kind of open-air house made of vinyl stretched over cardboard and a very few articles of furniture, along with instructions on making the rest out of cardboard milk cartons and fabric remnants and other discarded stuff. Oh, and a plastic mold for making dishes out of flour-water dough that you allow to dry and harden.
I hadn't heard of Magic Earring Ken until now...oh, god, that's hysterical, but then, *all* the Ken dolls were kind of closeted-looking.
I had a Barbie for a brief time but preferred to marry her off to GI Joe, who just seemed more...masculine, at least until they shrunk him down to three inches.
The new Strawberry Shortcake (more my sister's generational nostalgia than mine) doesn't seem tarty to me at all, but she does look bland and Disney-fied. Too bad. The cat was cute.
