Midge Hadley, the Pregnant Barbie
I wonder what roles I would have felt obligated to fill as an adult if Midge, the pregnant Barbie, were instead an astronaut, a divorcée, a bad friend.
Emily is a writer, former journalist, and theatre artist from Philadelphia. She is a current first-year fiction candidate at Texas State University.
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