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AT A DEPARTMENT STORE where Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) works at the doll counter, Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett) is looking for a Christmas gift for her young daughter. “What would you have wanted when you were her age?” she asks, but instead of a doll, Therese says she would have preferred a train set. An unconventional toy for a four-year-old girl to be sure, especially in 1952, but no mention is made of this by either woman.