It was truly the ultimate Cabbage Patch Kid experience. When my family was invited to celebrate Cabbage Patch Kids 30th Anniversary at the Eventi Hotel in NYC, my husband and I were so excited to expose our kids to something that was so reminiscent of our own childhoods. Needles to say, my brother and I were extremely happy on Christmas morning, and Margot Lilly immediately became one of my most beloved childhood toys. My mother said that her sister (my Tia Isa) went through something similar in Florida to purchase one for my brother. My mother managed to make her way inside the store, was given one ticket to purchase a Cabbage Patch Kid and was told to run. A stranger approached my mother asking “ are you one of us?” and then tried to link arms in hopes of forming a human chain to keep the hoards of women arriving on charter buses away from the front of the toy store line. Her recollection of the 1983 pre-holiday Cabbage Patch Kid craze is quite amusing. Thirty years ago my mother began her day at an absurdly early hour to stand in a line at our local Toys “R” Us to purchase the most coveted toy of the season: a Cabbage Patch Kid.
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