"The Guy Pushing the Mannequin"
This is Ned Nefner and his wife Teagan.
Mr. Nefer said he was born in Syracuse and in the 1980s spent some time at the Children's Home of Jefferson County in Watertown, where he said he met Teagan when she was just a head. He said he built a body for the mannequin and the two were "married" Oct. 31, 1986, in California.
They are traveling to the former Children's Home on State Street, where the two met, he said. Mr. Nefer said he has not been back to Watertown since 1988.
A social welfare examiner "said she heard he may have been married to a human but that his wife had died."
"I'm not sure if this is his way of dealing with the death or that this is some way of coping with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)," she said. "But he seemed sincere. … [and] quite happy."
A Facebook page called The Guy Pushing the Mannequin chronicles Ned and Tegan's trip through New York, and features dozens of photographs of the two on the road, in tattoo parlors, and at costume parties.
This is Doll News, and that doll is incredible.
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that doll needs a bra.
@becky@twitter Or band-aids.
@becky@twitter
However, on the plus side, he has been remarkably successful at matching the skin tone of the head on the rest of the body.
@City_Dater and he provides her with headphones, possibly with an AM/FM radio built in. now that's love.
Finally found my doppelganger!
those are the BIGGEST fake nipples i have ever seen…and her legs and torso are strangely out of proportion with her arms….s/n, never met a black chick named Teagan….way to go!!
THE NIPPLES!
It's Lars and the Real Girl in real life! Amazing.
This reminds me of Shaye Saint John which continues to give me nightmares.
@saythatscool oh, my. freaky.
@saythatscool Still berating myself for clicking on the link
@saythatscool Did you order the DVD?
@saythatscool im sorry, but…what. the. fuck??
seriously..wtf was that??
@all I did not buy the DVD because the "movies" section of the website made me curl up in a corner for about a week. I can't take a full length feature of this stuff.
This made me really sad.
@mouthalmighty Yeah, same. I can't see this as anything other than heartbreaking.
I have trouble seeing the mannequin as anything other than a horrific Mammie caricature come to life and so I can't find any humor with this.
@RK Fire At first I thought the same, but then I read that it's a love story!
@winchesterwolcott: Being in love with a stereotype is still unsettling to me.
@RK Fire Same here.
@RK Fire JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, I KNOW.
Not to mention that he's stealing her from all the perfectly good doll men out there.
So Ned's a boob guy is what you're saying.
@Jolie Kerr I'm getting kind of an R Crumb vibe with the legs.
@margaret_r I'm getting an all over R Crumb vibe with this lady
Did any of you guys see TLC's 'My Strange Addiction' about the guy whose girlfriend is a Real Doll? Maybe they can go on double dates. Hey to each his own.
This reminds me that I need to go re-watch Lars and the Real Girl. We've all seen Lars and the Real Girl by now, right? Because it is the best.
Of course he's from Syracuse. You go on with your north country self, doll man.
i feel depressed.
I just wanted to express how much I love Doll News. So much.