Cabbage Patch Doll Fight: A Christmas Shopping Tale (Essay)

Have you ever wondered how far a grandmother would go to get the hottest Christmas toy for her baby granddaughter? I never did until I witnessed how desperate my mother was to get a Cabbage Patch doll in the early 1980's. A fist-punching brawl between mothers and grandmothers at Toy "e;R"e; Us that forever changed my childhood.A shorter version of this 950-word essay was first published in Soft Wh...