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The Fake Baby Fad 13

An increasing number of childless women are taking fake babies to the park, out to eat, and even hosting birthday parties for them. Forty-nine-year-old Linda is married with no children of her own. Now, she says she feels like a mother because she has Reborns -- dolls made to look and feel like the real thing. Women interested in this "hobby" can spend a few hundred bucks to over a thousand on the faux infants. The owner of Reborn, Lachelle Moore, offers this unintentionally chilling line, "What's so wonderful about Reborns is that, um, they're forever babies."

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The Fake Baby Fad

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  • Sad (Score:2, Interesting)

    by ArcherB ( 796902 ) on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @03:20PM (#26346749) Journal

    If this is not a joke, it's got to be one of the saddest things I've ever heard.

    Unless a woman gets one of these and after lugging it around for a while realizes that she hates being a mother.

    or...

    She leaves one at the park, backs over it with the car or some other stupid "bad parent" move, saving a real child from that fate.

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