The Doll

By Kassandra Alvarado

Dolls are curious things, are they not? Loved, cherished, only to be thrown away when maturity beckons with parties, drinking and boyfriends. There are some who believe that a doll can gain a soul through a child’s love...,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kassandra Alvarado
• Release date: Jul 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310909184

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The Doll

By

Kassandra Alvarado

Published by Kassandra Alvarado at Smashwords

Copyright 2014

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Table of Contents

The Doll

Author’s Note

Bibliography

Dedicated to Sam for her fourth birthday

The Doll

hosoki hi ni yosugara hina no hikari kana

softly lit...

all night the hina dolls

faintly shining

Buson (1716-1784), Tr. Shigeki Matsumura

Dolls are curious things, are they not? Loved, cherished, only to be thrown away when maturity beckons with parties, drinking and boyfriends. There are some who believe that a doll can gain a soul through a child’s love. I wouldn’t know if there were some truth in that, but just the other day I struck up a conversation with a woman in a toy store on a hot summer day while I was buying a gift for my youngest cousin; she told me her experiences with a similar doll.

I’ll let you be the judge of her story:

The doll came to the Sato family through slightly unusual means. The family had consisted of a mother, an aging father whose company provided housing in a recently rebuilt section of a ward that suffered damage during the Tsunami, the woman in her teens and a younger sister who was much spoilt by their parents. They let the girl have her way with toys, friends and other things that had belonged to her older sister - who for the purposes of this narrative, we will call, Fumi.

Fumi was tasked often with taking care of her