I wasn’t thrilled. I’d just learned that the trip to NYC that I was taking with my extended family would center on the American Girl store. When I think New York, I think Central Park, Broadway shows, fancy cocktails, and shopping. I’m not a doll person, not now in my 33rd year, or ever. I went through a Cabbage Patch phase, but it was brief, and it was more about needing to have what everyone else had and less about actual doll playing.