Grieving mothers adopt life-like dolls
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LONDON — Weighing five kilos (11 pounds), with perfectly combed hair and eyes closed in sleep, Abby looks like a baby girl. But she is a doll, adopted by a grieving mother to help come to terms with the loss of a child.
“She reminds me of my daughter as an infant,” said Eve Hasty, a 57-year-old American who bought Abby from a British company for $300 (210 euros).
The retired driver who lives in Oklahoma lost her daughter to leukaemia when she only seven.
She has a surviving son in his 30s who has provided her with an eight-year-old granddaughter, but she finds the doll — which she acquired in 2009, three decades after losing her daughter — comforting..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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