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Why can’t we move on and find new characters and stories of today? Is it to continue to feel connected to our roots? Is it at the end of the day, just an exercise in marketing the brand?
Throughout the last 60-plus years of American history, Barbie dolls have expressed the ever-evolving influence of women in the world, especially throughout the business sector.
Like most little girls of her era, Dru Troescher-Battle had a Barbie doll. But Troescher-Battle, of Metairie, was never one of those obsessed Barbie kids. “I couldn’t decide between dolls