Dolly Park

Dolly Park

Yesterday evening we decided to take a walk to our park that is right up the road from us. It was a beautiful day, we had Subway sandwiches & talked. After our little picnic we decided to take a walk around the babbling brook. This is where I have been going to exercise my back & so I am all up for a walk as I can see the benefits that it has been yielding. We are just about to the end of our walk &I look over at the playing field & see hiding in the bushes this little doll baby. I pointed it out to Cheryl & she suggested we walk around on the field & pick it up. Ok... When I first saw the doll baby I thought about some poor little girl who had lost it & maybe stayed up all night crying because she couldn't find her friend. Then when Cheryl picked the doll baby up, it was verified as she was a little wet from the rain the night before she had been there all night. I couldn't imagine what this child thought after loosing her best friend. Cheryl decided to sit the doll baby on the park bench where we found her so that if the child came back she would see her doll. I thought that was a great idea & so we sat her on the bench. At first I felt good about this whole thing, we had found a lost doll baby & now even if the original child didn't find her another child maybe would. But as we are walking away...I turn around to get one last glimpse of the little doll & another emotions over takes me! This doll is creepy! She no longer looked like a lost doll with tasseled hair that was missing her playmate. No, she looked like a co-star of the Bride of Chucky. I asked Cheryl to look also & she agreed. The doll looks a little unsettling. So my conclusion of this story is....there is no child crying, no child loosing sleep because her friend is gone. No, that doll was left there intentionally as the child saw the same creepiness we did & didn't want that in her home. So there you have it....the story of Dolly Park.