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My name is Babygirl I am in Mr. Noons class I found this story in Chicken Soup for Little Souls. My story is called The Never-Forgotten Doll by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen.

My speech is about a lady named Miss Maggie and she tells a story about her favroite doll when she was 8 years old.

"On my eighth birthday, I opened a present that I will never forget. She was the most beautiful doll I had ever seen. Her big blue eyes opened and closed on a real china face. She wore a fancy white dress with lace trim, and her long brown hair was tied back with a pink satin ribbon. Owning a doll like that was a dream come true for a poor farm girl like me. I know my parents couldn't afford fine things. How they must have loved me to have spent their hard-earned money on such a luxury!"

Miss Maggie got a misty look in her eyes. "I was extra careful with her all morning. Dolls back then were very fragile--their faces were made of the most delicate china. I still remember how magical it felt just to hold her. She was the most wonderful thing I had ever owned. My mother lit the candles on my birthday cake and called me to the kitchen. "I laid her down gently on the hallway table. But as I went to join my family for my birthday song, we heard the crash. I know without looking that it was my precious doll! Her lacy dress had hang from the table just enough for my baby sister to reach up and pull on it. When I ran to the hall, there was my doll, her face smashed to pieces. My mother tried to glue her up, but it couldn't be done. She was gone forever."

I had never seen a look like that on Miss Maggie's face. I wrapped my arms around her neck and hugged her tight. The rest of the day we practiced my spelling words and played games, but I couldn't stop thinking about how unhappy Miss Maggie had looked remembering her broken doll.

Later that night, Mom said, "Saturday is Miss Maggie's birthday. Why don't you and I bake her a cake and bring it over there?" "Oh, Mom, that's perfect!" I said. "Miss Maggie was sad today, and that's just the thing to cheer her up!"

The next day after school, I found an even better thing. I was walking to Miss Maggie's, Just like always, want I saw a doll in the window of Mulligan's Collectibles. She looked really old and she had on a white lacy dress. Her hair was blond, not brown, and there was no pink satin ribbon, but I thought Miss Maggie might like her anyway.

The cake was delicious, and Miss Maggie said it was her favorite birthday yet.

Thank you for listing to my speech I hope you injoyed it.