The new Barbie Doll was destined to be a smash hit. It was life-sized, clothed in the latest high school fashions, so stunningly natural and real, it was declared indistinguishable from its human counterpart. One night a girl climbed through an open window into the department store, posed herself perfectly still next to the Barbie display, and waited, hoping that when day began someone would stop and notice her. She was so blinded by her desire to be added to someone's collection of toys that she hardly noticed the other live girls standing around her.

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