Dolls

I have been taking dolls to Peru and am amazed that many of the children have never had a toy.  Many friends have donated toys for us to take.  One of the nicest toy was a doll.  An old lady from  out community gave us some dolls to take.  She spent a year knitting a dozen dolls for me to take and the girls loved them.   At one time we  were driving down an old road in the Andes and we came across a group of children walking.  The girls had a bundle of wool they were carding on their long walk home. We stopped and handed the  little (and big)  boys a hot wheel car and the little girls a doll.  Immediately the boys gathered in a tight group with heads toughing as they compared cars.   The young girls just stood with no expression and stared at us.  I wondered if they even liked the dolls because they just stood there.  As we  walked away we heard screaming and screaming as only little girls could scream. We turned around to see the girls jumping and screaming and hugging the dolls.