About Emily

Nicknames: Strange, Strizzle, Em, Emmie

Age: 26

My great aunt introduced my sister and I to the American Girls Collection when I was about 6 years old. My sister, who is 2 years older, received the book Meet Kirsten and I was given Meet Samantha. We both really liked the stories and my sister saved up and bought Kirsten when she was about 9 years old. I really wanted Samantha, and my dad bought her for me when I was around 7 or 8 years old. Every Christmas after, my sister and I asked for American Girl things from the catalog so we could complete our collections. There were only 3 dolls back then, Molly was the third. My friend loved our dolls and got Molly as a gift from her parents one year. We had all the dolls between us 3! When Felicity came out in 1991, I saved up and bought her. Then my older sister got jealous and bought her too! Then my sister's best friend bought Felicity! I lost interest in the dolls a few years later when I became a teenager. When I turned 19, I fell in love with the Josefina stories and had to get her, she awakened my love for American Girl! I ended up selling Felicity, because I wanted to save up to buy Josefina's birthday collection. Plus I think I was getting tired of everyone having Felicity. In 2001, Pleasant Company started retiring a lot of the AG collection! Felicity's collection has been drastically downsized and now she is selling for a lot more money! It is sad to think that people have to spend so much on ebay to find Felicity things to complete their collection, I sold her to a 50 year old woman in Alaska who said she can't get enough of the AG dolls. I liked the fact that an older woman still enjoyed the dolls,and I soon after found the Society of American Girls Collectors online and met a lot of people my age and older who still love the dolls!

My boyfriend ordered me Josefina's nightshift as a surprise after I got my AA in college and moved in. He got the AG catalogue with his order and looked through it for fun. He started to like Kit a lot, and kept telling me to get her as my fifth doll. I never thought he would become interested (although later, he earned a BA in history)! I always thought Kit was cute, but I never considered getting her.

I thought about how much fun it would be to collect Kit's collection together with Luke, both getting excited over her. Over much debate and even a poll for this site, I decided to get Kailey and Kit. At one point I had 6 dolls! I liked having 4 dolls, so Therese (#14) and Kailey (limited edition 2003) had to go. I couldn't get rid of Josefina (my favorite, who got me back into collecting) or Samantha (my first). Click to see my farewell dedication page

Click here to see my collection checklist and what I still need.

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