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...... Seeing the film is only one part of being part of the American girl world of course. Not only do the dolls have tie-in books that are written at a high level of difficulty, and include historical subject material to make mothers feel better about buying the dolls (as opposed to books that are mere promotional tie-ins for the dolls). At American girl stores all over the country, girls and their mothers can eat at the American girl caf, buy accessories for the doll, buy matching outfits for dolls and girls, and live in a world free of outside pressures of sexualized adulthood. A New York Times slideshow of the Manhattan branch of the store during the opening weekend of Kit Kittredge shows legions of young girlsand young women, dining with their dolls and mothers in charming, although slightly eerie dining room scenes, made even more spooky by the fact that some of the girls look like and dress like their dolls
The American Girl company's stated goal is to create girls of strong character, a mission as unimpeachable as it is vague, writes the Times (Not a Doll by a Lifestyle, The New York Times slideshow, 2008). What

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