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The Anne Geddes Desk Reviewed for kids & the grown-ups who shop for them Reviewed from the windowsill
Lead Review · From: Anne Geddes
Bean-Filled Body Earns Status as Rage-Therapy Implement
Our critic pounces on the passive bunny-doll not in play but in principled fury, discovering its soft weighted midsection absorbs punishment beautifully and declaring it a necessary implement for maintaining mental equilibrium.

The Staff, in their infinite and often misguided wisdom, has procured a small, inanimate human effigy dressed in a bunny costume. This "Anne Geddes" creature apparently specializes in such twee abominations. My initial analysis reveals a deeply conflicted object. The face and hands are made of a cold, smooth vinyl that offers no purchase for a satisfying cl…

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