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Holly: Good evening from Holly of Blythe Network News. Good to see everyone. Tonight we have a special report regarding the Traveling Blythes. Soon, after a bit of primping and a raffle the Travelers will be heading to their forever homes. The 2012 Traveling Blythe’s have had a really long journey. When I began organizing this round in February of last year, I never knew it would be ending so late in 2013. But you know what else I learned? You can not forsee anything that is going to happen. Last year lindamom was a different person. Literally a different person. Her life has changed dramatically, and I am sure that many of yours have also. The people we were a year ago will never come back. As Frodo says “There is no real going back. …it will not seem the same for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?”

Many of us find rest with the beautiful girls called blythe. When Sandra Minkidynamite conceived this program in her heart it allowed us to welcome for awhile the spirit of travel and adventure in the shape of a doll to enter our doors and change our lives forever. If you hosted a Traveler you are also a different person. The talents of Happibug Custom, Moofala Custom and Kaleidoscope Kustoms formed the dolls into this very spirit of travel and adventure and sent them out to us. Aurora, Compass, Makani. My heart leaps just to hear their names. This past year for the first time we had a host in Hawaii and Israel! A Traveler was on the Great Wall of China! I can not tell you how excited I feel about this. Sandra is a wonder. She conceived an idea that creates unity.

What if you did not host a Traveler? There is another chance! A new set of Travelers will go out this year and the year after and the year after. Maybe one day I will have the honor of organizing again. It is a bitter regret that I was not able to finish along with the Travelers. But for now I will continue to be your reporter. I hope with the help of Babette of the rhubs knit Family who kept the news room open and does the most wonderful job. She is an excellent interviewer making them her own yet carrying on tradition. Do you like cheese?

But all of us are Travelers by virtue of our Blythes. Though terrible times with loss of jobs, medicial emergencies, the parting of friends, the insults of community members you thought were your friends and worse, Blythe has allowed our imaginations to soar free! She has pushed us to express ourselves, to live more and explore the call of the wild, the tide’s eternal tune, the phases of the moon, the chambers of our heart even if we never left our homes. Long live blythe, Long live the Traveler’s. The Blythe community has given this family love. And this family loves each and every one of you. This is Holly saying good night and thank you for turning into this station.

 

 

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