31 Days - Something I lost

I don't know why I remember this particular thing I lost, but it flits thorough my mind from time to time and I wondered whatever happened to it. Out of all the things I've lost, this one is possibly the least significant and yet I wonder about it a lot.

When I was about nine or ten I was given a doll as a gift. It was kind of like a Barbie, but not. It was jointed, meaning that it's knees and albows could actually bend which was a good thing because it was a doll that was supposed to be able to ride a toy horse - not that I had a horse that went with it, but my brothers had some pretty cool horses that came with the Lone Ranger and Tonto dolls they had!

Yes we had these exact ones!

But this doll was different because it was a male doll - only recognised as such by his short hair and outfit, not because he was anatomically correct. I think that's why I liked him - because he was different to my girly dolls - and because he could sit on a horse properly!

I don't know what happened to him. One day he just wasn't there anymore. Did my mother do a cull of toys? Did one of my friends envy my horse riding doll so much that they took him? Did I take him out somewhere and just lose him?

I don't think I'll ever know. But one thing I do know, is that I have somehow never forgotten this doll and I have no idea why.