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http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/853606-man-leaves-wife-at-home-to-go-on-holiday-with-doll
from the article:
from the article:
Man leaves wife at home to go on holiday with dolls
Dave Hockey’s wife isn't as distraught as you might expect at the prospect of him keeping other female company on holiday - because his companion is a plastic doll.
The father-of-two has taken ‘Bianca’ on road trips across the US and to Britain, including visits to Oxford and Stonehenge.
But the 57-year-old insisted his wife Wendy – a retired doctor – doesn’t mind.
‘She knows I’m not going to run off with a piece of silicone shaped like a woman,’ he said.
Weighing 40kg (90lb), Bianca has to be moved in a wheelchair. She is one of 14 dolls on whom Mr Hockey has spent £16,000 on travel and outfits, including £1,270 of lingerie.
Mr Hockey has even taken Bianca skydiving. ‘The instructor who jumped in tandem with her said it made a pleasant change to not have someone screaming in his ear,’ he said.
The filmmaker, from Nova Scotia, Canada, is working on a documentary about doll owners but claimed his collection is just a hobby.
He said: ‘Some people in the doll community – iDollators – prefer dolls over a normal human relationship. But for me they’re just dolls, not people.’