A2Z Challenge — The Letter B

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I am unofficially participating in this year’s A to Z Challenge. My theme this year is girlfriends.

B is for Barbara D.

I was about to walk into my house after school when I heard someone yell, “Hey!” I turned around to see a girl walking quickly towards me. When she reached me, she suck out her right hand and said, “Hi, Im Barbara, but my friends call me Barbie, like the doll.” then she held up a naked Barbie doll that she was carrying in her left hand.

Instinctively I shook her hand, said, “Hello,” and told her my name.

“I just moved into the house up the street and wanted to introduce myself,” she explained. “Do you want to play Barbies with me?”

I tried to figure out how old she was. I was taller, but she seemed to have more of a teenager’s body than that of most girls my own age, 11. She had light brown hair and brown eyes, and while describing her as pretty might have been a stretch, she wasn’t unattractive. “So, Barbies?” she asked. “I have a Ken doll if you want to play with him.”

“I don’t play with dolls.”

“Do you have a GI Joe doll?”

“GI Joe is an action figure, not a doll,” I said defensively.

“So bring GI Joe over and let’s see what kind of action he and Barbie can generate,” she said, a teasing smile on her face.

Barbara and I become very friendly and spent many hours playing “Barbies” over the next two years until her father, who was a real life GI Joe, got transferred to a different base and the family moved away.

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38 thoughts on “A2Z Challenge — The Letter B”

  1. Taswegian1957 April 2, 2024 / 3:34 am

    Girls have dolls, boys have action figures. There isn’t that much difference really.

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  3. Jamie April 2, 2024 / 5:00 am

    Funny you should mention Barbie–that is the topic of my A to Z this year!

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  6. boromax April 2, 2024 / 11:21 am

    I had three older sisters. My G.I. Joe and Captain Action saw plenty of action…

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