A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, they enticed us ...

The year was 1959 in Vigo County. An 8-year-old girl bounds excitedly toward the front door. The postman had just delivered the McCall’s magazine and she couldn’t wait to cut out the paper dolls ...

It is also a reminder for some of us that paper dolls are pieces from our past. As we continue with the birthday celebration ...