Kathryn Anne Shatzoff: When not Collecting, Giving
Kathryn Anne Shatzoff was not a collector, really, but her husband, Neil, the owner of a comic book shop, was. So a few years ago, he got her started collecting Barbie dolls.
He gave her an "I Love Lucy" doll as a gift, and now he's lost count of all the fancy dolls in their Riverdale home.
"We ran out of shelf space," said Mr. Shatzoff, chuckling.
In fact, Mrs. Shatzoff had carried a torch for Barbie since childhood, said her mother, Anne Davidson. A Manhattan native, Mrs. Shatzoff, 37, was an assistant in the risk management division of Marsh & McLennan, but spent a lot of her free time doing crafts and buying gifts for other people — no occasion necessary.
"She was the kind of person that would talk you into wanting something, just so she could go and buy it for you," said her husband.
Christmas, Mrs. Shatzoff's favorite holiday, will not be the same this year.
"I used to surprise her with stuff," said Mr. Shatzoff. "Every Christmas, we'd say, let's not buy each other anything, it's too much."
But then he would buy gifts for her anyway. And even though he did it every year, every year she was still surprised.
And she did the same for him.