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Are You Sure She Knows That?
By Susan Dunn
Are You Sure She Knows That? by Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach
I was out shopping for my beloved Annie, the little girl in my life, with my friend, Betty, who has four
daughters of her own, five granddaughters, and two great-granddaughters. She’s a woman of a certain
age, with wisdom, whose advice I’m often glad to take.
Shopping for a girl is new to me, the mother of grown sons. I can pull the right car, lego, or chemistry
set off the rack in a split second, but this thing about dolls has me both baffled and enchanted. I
remember back to childhood, but my own, not that of my children. My most recent home was filled with
wheels, not dolls.
We proceeded to the display of angels, which is what Annie had asked for. No, my sons had never
requested an angel, nor had they ever dreamed of being a “groom.” It wasn’t just the state of marriage
that didn’t immediately enchant them, it was the tux. They never requested dress clothes either!
So many blond angels, I thought, but finally found one with brown hair, like Annie’s. I have noticed the
changes in dolls over the years, and always say a silent prayer of thanks that now there are dolls with
different shades of skin and hair, and different styles and lengths of hair, as in real life.
I pulled the brown-haired angel off the shelf and put it in my cart.
“What are you doing?” Betty asked.
“Well, Annie’s got brown hair,” I said. “I want her to see there are angels with brown hair.”
“Are you sure she knows that?” Betty replied.
“What do you mean?” I asked.