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Update: Closure on Jessie and Emily

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SPOILERS AHEAD.  In Toy Story 5 , we've lost one fan theory and gained another.  As you might remember, Jessie, the cowgirl doll, and apparently Woody's sister, has had a crippling fear of enclosed spaces and being abandoned ever since Emily, the little girl she originally belonged to, left her in a cardboard box to be donated to charity  when she outgrew playing with dolls. While anyone who’s seen Toy Story 2 probably remembers how traumatized Jessie was about being abandoned by her best friend after spending years forgotten under the bed, but this movie offered some much-needed closure for us as well as Jessie.  After Bonnie, the little girl Andy donated his old toys to when he went off to college, lost Jessie and her horse, Bullseye, they ended up at Emily’s childhood home since the people who found her had read the address written on Jessie in case she’d been misplaced.  It turns out that while Emily did give Jessie away, she never entirely forgotten the m...