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It was the era of Charlie’s Angels, and a young Palestinian American girl living in Maryland struggled to fit in among a group of girls she called “The Jennifers.” As part of the GBH series Stories from the Stage, in Boston, Lena Rizkallah recalled an elaborate plan she hatched to become part of the group. The first step would be getting a popular toy, at the time, known as a Crissy doll. The plan didn’t turn out quite the way Rizkallah expected.