There's this girl who comes to the lab every day and spends hours playing around on the internet. She's about 25-26 years old, medium height, short black hair she wears in a stick-uppy ponytail on top of her head, always dressed casually in old shorts, t-shirt and sandals. She looks at YouTube videos and shopping websites online.
Recently she showed me some photos of babies that she printed on our lab printer. Well, I thought they were babies until she explained they are realistic baby dolls. They're supposed to be so real you can't tell the real babies from the fake. And she tells me her grandma is going to buy one for her. She's got several pictures and shows me the ones she's ordered.
Several days go by. Some days her family comes to pick her up at the lab--her mother (or grandmother?), brother and some younger kids which aren't hers--other days she leaves on her own. She's constantly talking about these dolls, or on some days she's completely silent.
Today she showed up looking quite tired and worn out, and she was pushing a stroller. Inside? Yes, two fake babies. They aren't as realistic as they look in the photos and are in fact quite a bit larger than a newborn baby would be, but they are dolls. And she's driving them around in a stroller with a blanket over the front to shield them from the sun. I didn't even comment.
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