This being unemployed and wishing/praying/hoping for my last semester of college to hurry up thing is pretty terrible, but John is a sweetheart and upped our uVerse package – the first thing I noticed that was on was All Dogs Go to Heaven. Dawwww, one of my favorite movies from when I was seven! I can remember Wendy’s had this glorious promo with their kid’s meal (much like the Land Before Time Pizza Hut promo that I conned my parents into) where you could get these cheap, plastic figurines that I swear they haven’t made since 1989.
I got Anne-Marie and I loved her like nothing else. She was perfect and had her own little spot in my dollhouse with my Barbies and Skippers and decapitated Kens. Sure, she was tiny, but who cared? She fit right in with my McDonald’s Fraggle Rock toys and my little Minnie Mouse wind-up toy in her pink convertible (probably also from McD’s.) Come to think of it, I think my brother had to have given me all of his Happy Meal toys because my parents didn’t take us there all that often.
Anyway, when I was about sixteen or so, we moved out of my childhood home and my dolls and toys and everything were all sufficiently lost. All that remained were my American Girl dolls and a couple of Care Bears that I bought at Trader’s Village my sophomore year. Nothing from my youth survived, and let me tell you, I had so much Rainbow Brite stuff that I could have been crapping rainbows and unicorns for centuries. I was DEVASTATED. And I still couldn’t stop thinking about my dumb Anne-Marie action figure.
The internet was relatively less obscure among my group of buddies at this point (1998) so I, in my infinite wisdom, decided to look up the fates of all of the actors of All Dogs Go to Heaven. Christ almighty, why? Why did I do that? I read about Judith Barsi (ffs, she’s also Ducky!) and wanted to curl in a ball and cry. Sixteen years old, and all I wanted was a big fat hug from my mommy. Reading about that sufficiently killed a large chunk of my childhood, just like reading about Devon Sawa being a junkie who (allegedly) beat his girlfriend destroyed my teenage years.
Wahhhhhhhh.
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