60: Amelia's Diary, Our Childhoods

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Earhart. Bones. Thermopolis. Bedelia. In the great tradition of people named Amelia, one diarist from the mid-1990s stands alone. With her handy composition notebook, Amelia could keep track of the latest gossip, her family’s major move, and her growing interest in drawing noses. For this episode, we re-read Amelia's Notebook (1995) by Amelia (she's like Cher) and the one and only Marissa Moss. In addition to a careful study of each beautifully illustrated notebook page, we also plunged back into some of the vintage Amelia material published in the American Girl magazine. Of course, this episode also covers springtime treats, the early 2000s American Girl website, and an Amelia quiz. Grab an AOL disc, some colored pencils, and get ready for a dive in to a series of notebooks you have not thought about in 20 years but won’t soon forget.

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0:28.1	starring Iana Hadwick and Esme Creeb Miles.
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0:34.0	Deez and C's apply.
0:35.5	I'll send I'm really glad that you could meet with me tonight because, you know,
0:40.0	Easter season is upon us, and sometimes that kind of surfaces some self-reflection,
0:45.1	some ethical questions, and, you know, I do have a question I need to check in with you on.
0:50.8	Yeah, of course, I'm happy to answer.
0:52.7	As you know, we both love the Easter candy season that's upon us,
0:56.5	and we're taking a lot of that in, you know,
0:59.0	some might say I'm doing Ronald Reagan cosplay with the amount of jelly beans I'm eating,
1:02.8	but just need to get your answer on this definitive.
1:06.2	I will take this as truth.
1:08.0	Can vegetarians eat peeps?
1:10.8	There's no ethical peep consumption under capitalism, so no.
1:15.7	Oh my god, I can't hear this.
	...

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