The Risk of Forbidding Dolls

“My sister’s doll had blonde hair and mine was a brunette, and I wanted the blonde-haired doll, so we were fighting in the back of the taxi. When we got out of the cab, my mother took both dolls, broke their heads off, threw them out, and said, ‘You will never have dolls again.’” Not so: Kathy Libraty of Brooklyn has proven her mother wrong.