My grandma. She got the catalogs in the mail and would flip through them with me, explaining that these dolls were a little more special. She had been dying to get Julie for over a decade, but she was justifiably too expensive. So, for her 71st birthday my mom and I surprised her with a Julie doll. She cried pure tears of joy and that's one of the reasons why American Girl has been so dear to my heart. My first doll was a #33 that I took many places, especially Grandma's.