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    'Why do you not make girl Army men?' Toy company answers 6-year-old girl's plea with prototype

    by Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune Sep 23, 2019 2 minutes

    Vivian Lord, 6, won a set of plastic green Army men from an arcade while vacationing with her family recently. But according to her mother, Brittany, at some time while she was playing with them, she asked her mom: Why aren't any of these girls? After some research, some pink ones were found online, but those too weren't female.

    "The color didn't fool her, and she wasn't going

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