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Indian Doll for Sale at the Thrift Store

By | 2020-02-05T22:15:21-08:00 February 6th, 2020|Categories: Issue 103: 06 February 2020|Tags: , |

By Heather Johnson   A middle-aged woman, orange hair tightly permed, bones jostling within a threadbare corset, manhandles the wide-eyed Native doll—hands pet imitation-buckskin fringe dress, sewn with plastic beads. A smile parts lips like the sheer cut of a razor as she rubs her thumbs over the doll’s sprayed-on brown skin—as his fingers explored and [...]