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   From: vacuum@empty-liberal-heads.com   
      
   The media sure lucked out with the most ignorant people they   
   could find in South Orange County, California.   
      
   UPDATE JAN. 26, 4:37 P.M.: Check the end of the post, they found   
   who was doing it, and it was a false alarm.   
      
   Before reading this story you might want to lower the lights a   
   little, and maybe even crawl into bed. Wait, no--this isn't a   
   ghost story. This is real life! Over the last several days, 11   
   families in the San Clemente community of Talega opened their   
   front doors to find a single, porcelain doll on the porch. Each   
   family has at least one young daughter around 10 years old.   
   Eerily, they said the doll dropped at each porch shares a   
   resemblance with that daughter.   
      
   Once the story broke, another mother in Talega came forward,   
   saying that two weeks prior she also received a strange present.   
   Three small, wooden dolls appeared on her porch with three   
   matching Ziploc bags of interchangeable clothing for each of the   
   dolls.   
      
   The families are understandably spooked and staying away from   
   the media at this point. Thankfully, the story had a somewhat   
   happy ending: a neighbor wanted to give gifts to young girls in   
   the neighborhood. But the incident says a lot about the times in   
   which we live. If several girls received doll on their doorsteps   
   100 years ago, it would probably have appeared as a kind   
   gesture, a sort of Ol' St. Nick deed. Have we just seen too many   
   horror movies? Was Michael Moore right when he said we're a   
   society stupefied by fear? The indisputable fact is that we do   
   make our biggest fears into blockbusters, so the images that   
   petrify us are well known. Whoever placed the dolls didn't do so   
   in a vacuum.   
      
   UPDATE:   
      
   So, they found the person who was doing it. A woman was giving   
   away her dolls because her daughter had outgrown them, and   
   contacted the sheriff after reports broke.   
      
   "Her motivation was out of goodwill," the an OCSD press release   
   said. "It was a kind gesture."   
      
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