“BLUE HAIR,

RED HAIR,

GREEN HAIR”

I had 26 of these when I was a kid. Big collection. Trolls with blue hair, red hair, green hair, orange hair. One day I came home from spending a week at my dad’s house and my mom had “cleaned” my room. She threw out all kinds of stuff that I loved. It was just gone. I bought this troll the next day. That’s when I first realized I could defy her.

~ Anonymous, nurse practitioner, Alexandria, VA

The humble troll, created by a struggling Danish fisherman as a Christmas gift for his daughter, became the sec ond-highest-selling doll of the ’60s—ranking just below Barbie.