Doll

It is an anxious, sometimes dangerous thing to be a doll. 

Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; 

they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

~ Rumer Golden

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Sweatsuit Susie wasn't the most popular doll on the block. She told it like it was. She was a straight-shooter and blunt to a fault. She didn't have an easy life, but she had stories to tell. You could find her sitting in her yard with a bucket of rocks to throw at the troublemakers if they came near her house. Troublemakers might be neighborhood kids, but might also be squirrels, the mail carrier, Shanna from two houses down, or even a stray plastic bag.

Sweatsuit Susie would make the perfect doll for someone who needed a dose of the truth or a non-traveling companion. Susie hated traveling. There was enough to complain about at home.