“They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the…
“Come on. It’s just a doll.”
He was right. He usually was. But fuck it all, this was my doll. I had owned this thing since I was three. That is twenty-two years. Did he really think I would not have an attachment to it?