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Inside The Disturbing World Of Doll Reader
Lifelike Baby Dolls: The New Trend For Childless British Women

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Scout
06/30/09

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this is my mother....and why I have not visited her in over a year....she freaks me the fuck out with all her babies everywhere

of course, it IS my fault for never having gotten married and knocked up ahem
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
06/30/09

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Extreme, off-the-charts creep factor aside, I laughed my tits off at the "one of these things is not like the other" randomly placed baby monkey. And now back to the creep factor.....Oh my God did anyone else read Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs? And particularly enjoy the part when he and his boyfriend stayed at the B&B and the place was crawling with dolls and they were both absolutely horrified? It was hysterically funny, but also showed the doll dichotomy: You're either a doll person who collects and names and talks to your dolls, or you're the type who'd sooner take a flying leap from a window than stay in a room that had dolls in it. Watching you with their beady, glassy, judgey omnipotent eyes. Eyes that blink veeerrryyy slowly. And their stiff little bodies that will march silently to your bedside while you sleep, and peer over the edge of the bed, and you'll wake up suddenly not knowing what startled you. And you'll scan the room, your eyes wide with fright, and all the dolls will be in their places....except one. The one that looks like a little shepherd boy, with a little staff and cap, will be standing just a little to the left of where he was when you lay down. So until dawn, you will lay motionless beneath the covers, eyes screwed tightly shut, until the slightest noise causes them to fly open. You'll hurriedly dress early the next morning and gather your things and make for the door. Once you've said, Bye, Scary Aunt Meredith!! Thanks for letting me spend the night!! No, can't stay for breakfast, but thanks!! call you when I get home!!, you breathe a sigh of relief. You arrive home and go about your busy day, the dolls forgotten. Later that evening, you're chatting on the phone with your friend as you unpack your overnight bag, and as you start to unzip it, you feel a quick movement from within the bag. You scream and drop the phone, your hands to your face, and watch with abject horror as the little shepherd boy climbs stiffly out of the bag. He has a new smile on his face and his staff is gone. In it's place is an ice pick. He approaches you, slowly, his glassy eyes glowing with malice. Your scream is cut short by the ice pick as it sinks into your neck. No one ever really knows what happened, and the doll is never seen again.

The End.
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CherriSpryte
06/30/09

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Is there something wrong with me that I had a lot of fun figuring out how to pronounce "Zawieruszynskis"? I think its Zha-vee-rah-SHIN-skees?
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Skellatrix
06/30/09

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Okay, I just checked out the Heaven's Light Nursery website and I must warn you: the first two images made me almost scream right in the middle of the office:

[heavens-light-nursery.com] (too lazy to do html-ing)

Also, there's disturbingly realistic baby peen. My inner 12-year-old boy cannot contain. So that may make it NSFW.
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Skellatrix
06/30/09

@Skellatrix: Ohh it made the link pretty! I should say I am too lazy to do photo embedding.
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Tart of Darkness
06/30/09

@Skellatrix: Okay so now I am creeped out possibly forever.
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Skellatrix
06/30/09

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Though I have to admire these people for crafting such amazingly realistic figures (down to the last detail), I must ask this: WHY?!

Also, I can't help but to think someone could play a cruel joke on someone else by swapping a real newborn with one of these dolls...
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hydrogen_jukebox
06/30/09

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My mother used to get this magazine, though when I remember looking at it, it wasn't this thoroughly creepy. She usually needed it to order parts for the mechanical figurines she would dress.

Don't talk to me about scary dolls until you've had sixteen armature-bearing, glass-eyed, bald smiling gnomes living in your basement.
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DorothyBarker
06/30/09

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Anyone notice that this Ebberling woman's comments about her doll-making sounds strangely like the letter about Trig excerpted in the piece on Sarah Palin...? I'm just sayin'.
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Skellatrix
06/30/09

@DorothyBarker: AHhhh!!! They do!!! Also, I'm not surprised that doll-crazy = God-crazy. That's just my atheist viewpoint.
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monpetitchou
06/30/09

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I seem to remember seeing a documentary or something where a woman actually spoke to and treated a baby doll like a real baby...she couldn't have kids or something. Does anyone remember this?
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HuckleberryFriend
06/30/09

@monpetitchou: I remember! I think there was actually a Jez posting about it.
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R-Star
06/30/09

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These doll people seem to have some kind of weird obsession with premature babies, like being so tiny and vulnerable makes them somehow more attractive. I noticed that on some other link that was posted on Jezebel about crazy lookalike dolls. It made me think of how Cabbage Patch dolls had a line of preemies years ago. I just think there's something a bit sad about idealizing a child for being tiny and delicate when in fact they are potentially in great danger because they were born prematurely.
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Tart of Darkness
06/30/09

@R-Star: I think this goes along with the concept that God only sends "special" babies to "special" people.
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BAngieB
06/30/09

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Picture 5, doll in the purple dress:

"As I work closely with my own lawyer, I feel the culmination of a TwinStar lawsuit. I am making a statement as it is revealed to me in a very profound way: I did NOT intend to make Akira Rose in the image of Mary Kate Olson OR Ashley Olson."
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Rare Affinity
06/30/09

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I can understand having a fixtion about a doll you have had ever since a small child but not one you buy as an adult. The idea of dolls coming to lofe has long been a staple of children's literature. I have only ever had one dream about my toys coming to life. In it I caught them smoking and playng poker. I was ten at the time.
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
06/30/09

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if this isn't an homage to Strangers With Candy there is no reason for this doll to exist.

my week cannot improve after reading that, a sentiment which has brought joy to the universe.
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morninggloria
06/30/09

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This sort of makes me want to have another abortion.

And I'm not even pregnant!
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BlondeGrlz
06/30/09

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I think "seeing baby's faces reflected onto clay" is listed as a side effect of some prescription drugs. Don't worry, just consult your doctor.
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Ailatan
06/30/09

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Number 5... I'm sorry of either of you are in the room, I would not be able to sleep a wink.
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