I Survived (& Secretly Loved) My Trip to the American Girl Store

By Alex Richards

For my daughter’s sixth birthday I did something I never thought I would do: I took her to the American Girl Place in New York City. Everyone thought I was crazy. “You?” my sister said. “I can’t believe you’re taking her there.” Believe me, it came as a shock to me, too. I never thought I’d have a girly-girl daughter, let alone one I showered with sparkles and tulle,…

Alex Richards
Alex Richards

Alex Richards is a Brooklyn-based young adult writer with a background in photography and television production. She loves making no-budget horror flicks with her friends, cooking, crafting, exploring, and being silly with her two kids, awesome husband, and lazy cats. In addition to her young adult novel, Back Talk, Alex writes for New York Family Magazine, and works with ASAP, a South African organization supporting rural communities of women caring for vulnerable children.

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