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Girls talk Barbie as she reaches her 50th birthday

Published 03/12/09
Colleen Dugan — The Capital
Amy Brunner, left, director of the SPARK Center for Creative and Performing Arts, plays with her daughter, Josephine, 8, and her Barbies before a dance class at Baldwin Hall in Millersville earlier this week. Josephine loves playing with her dolls after school — changing their clothes, playing house, or maybe even pretending to take them camping.
Josephine Brunner likes to get "dolled up" after school. Almost every day when she gets home, she delights in changing clothes, playing house and maybe even going camping - with her Barbies. "It's my favorite thing to do," the 8-year-old Bodkin Elementary School student said earlier this week as she showed off some of the Barbies in her collection of about 20, including ones clad in dresses she made. "They're fun to play with."
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Josephine Brunner likes to get "dolled up" after school.

Almost every day when she gets home, she delights in changing clothes, playing house and maybe even going camping - with her Barbies.

"It's my favorite thing to do," the 8-year-old Bodkin Elementary School student said earlier this week as she showed off some of the Barbies in her collection of about 20, including ones clad in dresses she made. "They're fun to play with."

And they're more fun than American Girl dolls, she added, because they're "into different stuff, grown-up stuff."

But Josephine seems...

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