is a video of Andrea playing with a bitty baby american girl doll on Thanksgiving in 2016. The baby who we had gotten the doll out for was long in bed, and everyone else sat around the coffee table, playing games, eating cheese, drinking wine, generally being festive. Andrea picked up the bitty baby (the first purchase I remember making, when I was about 10 years old with birthday money, I think? I got the one with tan skin and brown hair like mine and though I was maybe a little bit past the age of playing with baby dolls, I totally loved it) and began to play with it, leading it through motions reminiscent of yoga or tai chi, making it dance around... I was the only person in the room who seemed to notice what she was doing and how absolutely Wild it was, and I was quiet and small enough to sneakily film her for about three minutes. I then set the video to Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence," and created the best short film I believe I ever will.
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