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My mother gave me a Mrs. Beasley doll when I was around 9 or 10 years old. I had no interest in such dolls. A few years later, I realized that my mother was grooming me to take care of her (my mom, not the doll) in her senior years. In my mid-twenties, when I left home to live in another state, my mother's health seriously declined. She died at 62, despite my younger sister and my dad caring for her *constantly." I think she was either devastated that I didn't fulfill her wishes for me, or she was an unconscious handler/programmer who went into some kind of slow, painful demise, kind of like the "replicants" in the movie Blade Runner. I don't mean to be disrespectful. It's just that by the time I was 11, I realized that my mother had nothing to offer me except what my father provided for with his job: Food, shelter, clothing, the basics.

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I am a survivor of SRA within the Mormon church and my experience with dolls is yucky. I was given a cabbage patch doll for Christmas when I was 8. The doll was used as a host and the spirit was a “watcher”...this is what I was told. That it saw everything I said and did.

Dolls, especially old dolls are really creepy for me. I wouldn’t keep one in my house, even though it was a gift from my grandma (her old Shirley Temple doll from her childhood.)

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Thankyou very much for your testimony knitterkate. It is much appreciated, a great help for me. On the mormon church this site is now compiling stories of mormon abuse https://floodlit.org/ if you did not know.

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Yes! I’m so grateful for our friends at floodlit. They posted David Lee Hamblin & Roselle Hamblin Stevenson immediately. It’s been a long, difficult journey to get to where we are with this case and I’m so grateful for everyone’s support. Including yours & floodlit and many others!

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knitterkate, you might be interested in reading my brief comment about "old" dolls. Thank you for sharing your story!

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If this explanation of the connection between the person and their representation as enacted by the “doer” is true… What about celebrities who freely give away their photographs with their own handwritten authentic signatures? It seems to be a much better link because it is “endorsed” live and in direct contact by the potential target (the celebrity). Celebrities by the virtue of their existence alone have a lot of friends, and an unknown number of those who do not wish them well. Why are they not afraid of leaving a live trail? Additionally, their signed items are beyond any control, exchanged, shared, traded - what en energetic mess.

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