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"Baby Alice come play with Lily" said she. But exactly what Alice was invited to play with once she had joined Lily in her room wasn't altogether clear. "No, don't touch, baby Alice", no to this, no to that, no, no, no. Yet Alice is slowly emerging from her "inert doll" status into a potential playing companion in the eyes of Lily, especially when nobody else is around to play with. In this instance, the nobody was me (daddy), too busy washing the dishes (between camera shots, that is)...