I'm glad your Kailey is a real one [img]smile.gif[/img]

As for why yours does not look EXACTLY like your daughter's, I have noticed that AG dolls have a lot of variation in even the same model. I've been looking at everyone's albums and it is amazing how different some people's look compared to others. And so different from the ones on the AG website. I've come to accept that each doll is almost an individual - a work of art.

I was dressing my Samantha doll today (who is from around 1998) and noticed for the first time that one of her arms has more definition, with dimples in her elbow, while the other does not. I was examining her legs as well, and one was ever so slightly a lighter color than the other. I've had her for what - eight years? and never noticed before. AG probably has a bin of arms and legs and whomever is putting the dolls together is responsible for matching them up as well as possible. That being said, it sounds like the year Kailey was produced was really lacking in the quality control part of production.

Hopefully you can have Kailey's parts matched better by the AG hospital without much hassle and you can put this harrowing day behind you and grow to love and cherish your new doll.