"Long ago, I was a little girl, just like you! "
When I was 5, my father was drinking and my mother, after just having my little brother, "wigged out" Clearly neither she, nor my father could take care of us so me and my 4 brothers and my sister had to be put in foster care. For seven months (which is a long time for a 5 year old) my sister and I were separated not only from our parents but from our brothers.
It's a long drawn out story and I have told it before on here so I won't repeat myself. Suffice to say it was traumatic for all of us. I remember that we spent Christmas away from home and family that year. Christmas was a big deal to a big Catholic family. That year, my father bought me this Mrs. Beasley doll.
When I was lonely for my mother, I would pull her string and she would make me feel better. God, I loved that doll.
Even reading these quotes from her voice box, I can hear her little granny voice and it makes me cry.
"I do think you're the nicest little friend I ever had!"
"Gracious me, you're getting to be such a big girl!"
"It would be such fun to play jump rope don't you think? "
"Speak a little louder dear, so Mrs. Beasley can hear you. "
"If you could have three wishes, what would you wish for? "
"Would you like to try on my glasses? You may if you wish. "
"Do you want to play? "
"If you were a little smaller, I could rock you to sleep. "
"Long ago, I was a little girl, just like you! "
"Do you want to hear a secret? I know one! "
"You may call me Mrs. Beasley, would you like to play?"
I really have to find one, it is my new mission in life. Before I am dead, I will have one again.
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