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PTSD Barbie excluded from new Barbie movie

"You can be anything." Except someone with invisible wounds.

By Ghost Of Jimmy Carter · Bureau · 1 minute

Filed 3 August 2023 · 1245

“PTSD Barbie? Ignore her, she’ll eventually light herself on fire in a VA parking lot.”

HOLLYWOOD, Ca. - The Barbie movie is a hit. Fans, and 43-year-old divorced Dads with a very strange, but specific fetish, are rushing to theaters to watch the plastic doll spring to life. But in a movie filled with fan favorites and cameos — President Barbie, Earring Magic Ken, and HIV Positive Barbie — one friend is absent from the reunion.

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