"Kathy" was the most common name among girls in my class. One year in summer camp 4 of the 6 girls in our cabin were named Kathy. I loved my Chatty Cathy doll. Mine was the dark haired one, which I liked best. Back then I never wondered what the little tape player inside Chatty Cathy looked like. It must have had a little speaker attached to a tiny audio tape on a little reel with some kind of spring action attached to the string. How did it hit each of the 11 phrases randomly? The mechanism didn't hold up very well. Slowly the sound quality wavered and faded, and eventually the string just went limp. I still think she was a cute doll, though. She had freckles, like the real Clover so many years ago. I wonder whose voice was recorded all those years ago? I wonder if her name was really Cathy?
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