Gabriella Paiella's previous work for The Toast can be found here. I had a nice childhood. I didn’t want for much, save for three things that my parents refused to budge on. They were, ordered by the magnitude of associated tantrums that I threw: 1. an Easy-Bake Oven 2. an American Girl Doll 3. a movie ticket to Spice World I eventually came to understand that my first two white whales were just exorbitantly…