"Dear kid. Fuck you. Love, Mattel"

"Dear kid. Fuck you. Love, Mattel"

Mar 17

I keep meaning to dig through all my back issues one of these days to compile a stack of all the random nineties issues where I had letters printed, and then to scan those letters in and post them, in order to mock my own pathetic teenage nerdity–not that it was pathetic for me to be a nerd as a teen; rather that I did a pathetic job of writing what I thought to be especially erudite and clever letters.

Anyway, here’s a great story of one hopeful seven-year-old’s dreams dashed to pieces at the feet of Mattel corporate policy.

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