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Shaquita and her doll.

correct toys as well as much public discussion are really more flexible
than they may seem.
The girls' refusal to accept racial boundaries as absolute and un-
bridgeable spilled over into my relationships with them, since from the
very beginning they were fascinated with my own waist-length "Barbie-
doll hair." As I grew to know the girls better, they began to get their
hands in my hair, styling it in ways that made me look better to them,