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By
Kimberly Anger
When I was a kid there was a toy I was really curious about.
Not how it worked or how much it cost, but curious about
why any kid would want it. That toy was the Visible Woman.
Here you had a woman, encased in a plastic shell that, when
opened, would spill out all her organs onto the floor. What
if you couldn’t get them all back in? It was like a
Jenga game with intestines and a spleen. YUCK!
But, standing in the toy aisle, I would peer inside the package and see how all
the human parts fit together like a puzzle. The stomach and liver fitting nicely
in the middle and her tiny heart — a small red blob that wasn’t heart
shaped at all — sitting in her chest for everyone to see.
As an adult, I think it would be much easier if we were constructed more like
the Visible Man and Woman. Think about it. If you got cancer, the doctor could
just look inside you, find the disease, and pluck it out. Someone broke your
heart? The resulting damage is there for all to see. Oh it could work the other
way too. Falling in love would create a thump, thump, thump that you just couldn’t
hide.
Of course if this was the case, I don’t think we’d see so much risk
in the fashion department. No plunging necklines or daisy dukes, and that can’t
be a bad thing.
Read more of Kimberly’s
blog at www.lodinews.com/blogs/women.
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