Floyd Blake winds up a doll, twisting the key in her back, until a twinkly, old melody plays from inside of her. I visited Blake, the Doll Doctor, at his museum in Parkland, Washington. It’s a small, ...

They come to him with broken arms and missing legs. Some cry, but only when their strings are pulled. They’re all needing help from Floyd Blake, the Doll Doctor. “Don’t throw it away,” Blake said of ...

Doll doctors fix broken arms and broken legs and even perform the most delicate of plastic surgery, but they say they’re mostly in the business of mending broken hearts. Running doll hospitals, doll ...