In Which Lenore is Today's Guest Blogger

 Miss Caroline said it would be okay for me to introduce myself. I don't know if I want to start my own blog or not. 

Hi. I'm Lenore.

I came to live here in April, 2020. That was a really weird year. I used to live in Colorado, but the lady I lived with said that I needed to go to New York. It was a better place for me and I'd have more friends there. I didn't want to go, though. I thought I was going to stay in Colorado forever. And I hadn't given up thinking that one one day everyone would come back and things would be like they used to be. But the lady said that wasn't going to happen, it couldn't happen for a bunch of reasons and I would be much happier in New York. I wasn't at first. The lady I was sent to live with, Miss Beth, had adopted another doll who at the time I really, really didn't like. I thought she had come to take my place, and she thought I was really spoiled and ungrateful and didn't appreciate everything I had. And I guess she was right. I kind of didn't. Anyway, I didn't think I was going to be happy here at all. But everyone turned out to be okay. Even Fawn turned out to be really, really nice. I miss my Ahma sometimes, though. She had to go back to the Fairy Court, but this time they wouldn't allow me to come with her. They said it's because I'm not one of them. I don't think it's very fair, but I didn't have much of a say in it. But they're really mean anyway, except for Ahma, so maybe it's for the best. 

Anyway, I've been here for almost four years now, and I think I like it. It's really nice, although Miss Beth said we're going to be moving to another place at some point soon. A place around here, though. Some of the other dolls are going to have to go into storage, she said, but Fawn, Miss Caroline, Miss Madrigal and I aren't among them. She said we'll get to be with her the whole time. I'm kind of excited, although I don't know where we'll be going or anything. I want a place with lots of windows so we can have more houseplants. 

Miss Beth reminded me that Christmas is coming up at the end of the month and asked me what I wanted. I said some new clothes and a new pair of boots. I really want some leggings like Fawn wears all the time. I wish they still made MP3 players. They look like they'd be cool. I was watching a bunch of music videos on YouTube and asked Miss Beth what she liked when she was my age. She said that there was this show by a band called Sha Na Na and they played all these songs from the Fifties and she liked them a lot. There was another show called Pink Lady and Jeff that all the grownups thought was stupid, but they had cool bands like Cheap Trick and Blondie and Alice Cooper, too, and she liked all of them because of the show. She also said someone at her school thought it would be a good idea to put a jukebox in the cafeteria, but it only lasted about a month. She thinks now it was because one of the grownups figured out what the lyrics to "My Sharona" and "Good Girl's Don't" meant. (She also said Sharona is a real lady and she's apparently really cool.) She also said she really liked the Ramones after they were on with Sha Na Na. She said that the Ramones (who really weren't named Ramone) and Blondie were punk bands from New York City, and that it was a big deal at the time because nobody knew what to think of them. She said she wanted to be like Debbie Harry when she grew up. I think I do, too. She's really pretty and cool. Maybe I should ask for a guitar? I think that's what you need to play of you want to be in a band. I played violin for a long time, but I don't think there are a lot of violinists in bands. Miss Caroline played a bunch of songs from the Psychedelic Furs for me and they're pretty cool, too, but I think she totally misinterpreted the song she named herself after. I think the Caroline in the song is what Miss Simona would have called "loose." I know that means doing stuff with men that she shouldn't be. There's also a song by another band called Concrete Blonde called "Caroline" and Miss Beth and I both think it's about the same person. Maybe I'll start a band like the Alarm. They write songs about standing up to the people that keep trying to keep things bad or make them worse when they should be making them better. That's what we all should do, I think.  

This is me, Fawn and Mr. Jamie. He's also really nice. He's one of the only boys here. He told me, Fawn and Miss Caroline that he has a sister our age and he wants to ask Miss Beth if she can come stay with us when her school term is over. I think he's a little afraid to ask, but I don't think she'll say no. He said she's been studying ballet but isn't sure she wants to be a professional dancer. I think their mother wants her to be and isn't taking no for an answer. 

I cant think of anything else to talk about right now, but here's a picture Miss Beth took a couple of weeks ago. This was over the Hudson river where she works first thing in the morning, and she said she has no idea where the rainbow came from because it had stopped raining by then. But it's still really cool.