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Growing up in New Delhi, I saw Barbie as more than just a doll. She was the central _____________ in countless dramatic stories that I, like many other girls, _____________ on my bedroom floor.

As much as I loved Barbie, our time together could only last so long. Eventually, I grew _____________ that I still played with my Barbie dolls while my middle-school friends had all moved onto more “mature” _____________. Barbie became similar with being a fake, “plastic” girl, whose bright pink clothing _____________ my friends and me.

By the tender age of 12, my friends and I had become _____________ all girlish things, and Barbie topped our list of items to grow out of. Every _____________ we took up instead seemed either gender-neutral or traditionally masculine (男子气概). For a _____________ period I took up watching football to look cool (say exactly a month).

Looking back, I feel like we were missing the point: Barbie was simply a blank canvas upon which to draw our ideas. It was our own _____________ that we had come to abuse her for wearing pink clothes and having blond hair. That is why I appreciate the way the Barbie movie is being ______________. The movie ______________ and Barbie’s bright pink colors are everywhere — there are 100 or more co-brand products, and you can get everything Barbie-pink from sports facilities to make-up and shoes. In Malibu, there is a pink hotel ______________ after Barbie’s pink Dream House.

In an interview, the director Gerwig said the team had many meetings just to settle on the correct ______________ of pink for the movie — one that was beautiful but “not too fashionable”, she said, “because when I was a little girl, I loved the pinkest, brightest things”, without a hint of the ______________ that I and my peers had of Barbie all those years ago, which would have been really important to me as an adolescent girl who often felt ______________ in her femininity (女子气质).