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I can remember growing up and asking my parents this one question. “Where do babies come from?” I still see the brief pause and my parents looking lifeless as they told me babies come from the stork. It just didn’t seem to sit right with me. How could this large bird know exactly where to deliver the baby and does he ever get lost?
When I asked again, the story changed to a watermelon seed. I can remember telling my parents that I would eat a watermelon again because it might be someone’s baby brother or sister. Quickly they came up with another answer -- babies come from the Cabbage Patch. At that moment I got tired of asking and just accepted that answer.
In 1982 Xavier Roberts made this a factual answer by producing the Cabbage Patch Kid doll that every child near and far had to have. The commercial was a great endorsement for sales: good parents make good Cabbage Patch Kids.
Each Cabbage Patch Kid is wrapped in Cabbage leaves. Each Cabbage Patch Kid comes along with adoption papers, and a birth certificate. I love Cabbage Patch Kids. Since I received my first Cabbage Patch Kid, I have an entire collection of Cabbage Patch Kids from the 1982 up until now. Recently Cabbage Patch kids were re-released. I’m hoping Cabbage Patch Kids stay around so that I can tell my kids that babies came from the Cabbage Patch.
Did you get caught up in the Cabbage Patch craze?
Photograph Credit:
Sabrina Segal
