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For, even when buried, dolls could always be brought back to life, if desired. Even discovering that the doll may not have been formerly living does not preclude the child's ability to imagine its animation, as is the case with one doll player, who, on taking apart her doll, finds that it has "no heart and so put in a small ball so it could live," she said, "and love us." As disturbing as it might seem to hold a funeral for an object so closely aligned with oneself, nineteenth-century children in fact found that destruction and burial brought about equal promises of reanimation. In this way, doll funerals often helped fulfill the promise of resurrection: the doll, which never really dies, can always come back to life.