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  • 'Homeless' doll costs $95 (hairstyling extra)

    09/24/2009 10:31:00 AM PDT · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 15 replies · 1,021+ views
    New York Post ^ | 9/24/09 | Andrea Peyser
    Barbie she's not. Meet Gwen Thompson, the newest addition to the American Girl canon of dolls -- the wildly suc cessful, extremely expensive brand of faux children that are sold out of a four-story town house in the heart of Fifth Avenue. Little children as young as 4 are addicted to these pricey little monsters. It's like middle-American crack. You have an African-American doll, an American Indian doll. A Jewish one. A doll who "lived" during the Great Depression, and one from the Roaring '20s. And while you were snoozing, the creators of American Girl, which is sold by Mattel,...