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PLAYING HOUSE

had two doll’s houses as a child. The first (I am guessing the order based on fabrication, because time tends to play tricks on memory) was a plastic tree house from Fisher-Price, which you can now find on eBay under vintage toys. It came with a group of Tree Tot inhabitants, a dog, some beds and other plastic furniture, but for me the real selling points were the bright-green Dr Seuss-like dome-shaped canopy that opened and closed like an umbrella, and a hollow tree trunk that included a

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