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My name was first Samantha

In the days long, long ago.

My Ma Ma was a little girl

And Oh, I loved her so!

She clapped her hands and hugged me tight

When she found me underneath the tree

That frosty Christmas morning

In eighteen ninety three.

No dolly ever had such love.

Or knew a greater pride.

Ma Ma kept my clothes just so

And I was always at her side.

The happy days were soon to pass,

Ma Ma looked at me one day

And said "I've grown too old for dolls

I must put you away."

So for many years I never knew

The darkness from the night.

But one day I was awakened from my sleep

and brought out into the light.

The one who held me in her hands

Wore clothes so strange to see,

Her eyes were hard, he lips were stern.

I did not like her holding me.

""This must have been Grandma's doll,"
she cried,

"A real antique. How nice,

And in very good condition too,

She should bring a fancy price."

Now I have a new Ma Ma

She says I cost her dear,

But she never holds me in her arms,

Or says things I like to hear.

She puts me in a room of glass

With dolls all in a row,

And she has given me another name.

She calls me Bebe Bru.

My curls are brushed, my clothes are fine

and lots of people come to stare.

But there is no love light in their eyes,

No one to really care.

How I long for hugs and kisses

And a little girl with whom to play.

My new Ma Ma just comes and looks

And then she goes away.

If she knew I was just plain Samantha

and not Bebe Bru,

Do you suppose I would know the love again

I once knew long ago?!

~Author Unknown~