An American Girl

Katy truly has a love for dolls. Baby dolls, Barbie dolls, Polly pockets or the 18 inch dolls such as American girl dolls. She plays with them all. She watched a movie about an American girl Samantha a few years ago and fell in love! Samantha is orphaned at age five and raised by her wealthy Victorian era grandmother. Samantha befriends a poor servant girl named Nellie O'Malley. Eventually Samantha, Nellie and Nellie's young sisters are adopted by Samantha's uncle and aunt.Katy received Samantha for Christmas that same year and has enjoyed many hours of playing with her.We picked Samantha partly because she was adopted and partly because she is such a pretty doll.We soon found out that Samantha and all her accessories were going to be archived and when they sold out they would be gone. I guess I didn't take into consideration that Nellie was part of Samantha's accessories. Anyway Nellie sold out and could no longer be bought before I realized it. So the search for Nellie began. We ended up getting her cheaper than she would of been new from a very sweet lady that we met on an American girl doll forum. These dolls were going for $200.00 to $300.00 on eBay at the time! She said she felt that dolls were meant to be played with. So that is how Nellie came to live with us. She truly is adopted!