Heartbroken pensioner, 70, starts secretly dating a sex doll after his beloved wife dies of cancer… and claims her soul now inhabits the mannequin
Zhang Wenliang, 70, dresses the doll in his partner's clothes, puts it on her side of the bed and even talks to it
A CHINESE pensioner is living with a sex doll which he believes is inhabited by the soul of his dead wife.
Bizarre pictures show Zhang Wenliang, 70, sobbing as he talks to the busy doll as it lies lifeless in the bed he used to share with his partner in Chongzhou city, Sichuan province.
Zhang bought the £1,800 doll in 2015 after the death of his wife from pancreatic cancer.
The retired doctor said: “I helped others overcome their diseases but with her illness I could not do anything.”
Unable to handle the grief, he began dressing it in her clothes, such as her favourite red cardigan, and placing it in the same part of the bed she used to sleep.
He even talks to it and claims the doll is his wife’s resurrection.
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According to , Zhang said: “I do not want her floating outside, I want her to live with me at home.
“I want to see her every day.
“Photos and the ashes are her soul and that fake doll is her body.”
He knows the dolls are for entertainment and has kept his one secret until now as he didn’t want others to judge him.
He said: “Maybe they are for entertainment, to meet the physiological needs, but I see it as a real person.”
But since buying the doll only a year ago, he says it has rapidly deteriorated.
Now, Zhang has decided to sue the manufacturers after the joints and limbs became twisted and internal wiring controlling the temperature began to show.
He said: “I spent 16,000 Yuan – it's not a small figure. But the quality is far too poor.”
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