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Yukiko Hattori from Japan Almost 10 years ago, I sent a letter to a readers' column of a magazine. I wrote about my dream doll which I always wanted to find and purchase someday. "The doll does not need to be a luxurious one, but she must look as if she listens when I talk to her, like the doll, Emily, in the book "A Little Princess". Several weeks later, a letter came from an unknown Japanese lady living in Ft. Collins, Colorado. She had read my letter at a Japanese bookshop in Denver. "I got interested in your dream doll," she wrote. "I have made bisque dolls as my hobby for a long time. Perhaps none of my dolls is good enough to suit your dream, but I would be happy if one of my dolls could join your doll family until you find your real dream doll. Would you mind receiving one?"
To be honest, I had never imagined my dream doll as something so aristocratic. Up to that time, my doll family had consisted of just an odd mixture of rather poor, old creatures. Sometimes, their very helplessness seemed to me the main reason I was attracted to them. Now, this Rosa here was far from any kind of poorness. She might not need anyone to take care of her. While I was looking at her, she was also looking at me--quite patiently. Besides being beautiful, I noticed she looked good-natured, innocent, and very sympathetic. "Well, isn't she like Emily?" I asked myself. To have someone you can nurse is wonderful, but you may also need somebody else who is willing to share your problems and pleasures. Wasn't that the quality I saw in Emily who gave me the idea of the dream doll in the first place? Soon
I set myself to write a letter to Rosa's
"biological mother" to express my sincere
gratitude. Since then, I have been blessed with
having at least one good "listener" around me-- and
one in Colorado, too. More about Yukiko's dolls: Memories of Dolls | Messengers of Friendship
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