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04-18-2016, 08:28 PM
Thailand treats these life-size dolls like real children. This woman is their mother.
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Mananya Boonmi scrolls through the thousands of photos on her phone with the mile-wide smile of a proud mother. Every **w and again she stops scrolling to show off a photo with one of her "children."
“This was when he was 4,” she says as she hands over a picture of her holding **ng Pet (Diamond). “I’ve put a new body on him since then.” Motionless in her lap, **ng Pet sits bejeweled in a fine white dress, Boonmi happily caressing his arms.
**ng Pet is 5 years old, 2 feet tall and a ‘Luk Thep’ — literally, Child Angel — doll. He’s also just one doll of thousands in the latest Thai craze that recently enraptured, and then exasperated, large swathes of Thai people. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/thailand-luk-thep-dolls/)
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Mananya Boonmi scrolls through the thousands of photos on her phone with the mile-wide smile of a proud mother. Every **w and again she stops scrolling to show off a photo with one of her "children."
“This was when he was 4,” she says as she hands over a picture of her holding **ng Pet (Diamond). “I’ve put a new body on him since then.” Motionless in her lap, **ng Pet sits bejeweled in a fine white dress, Boonmi happily caressing his arms.
**ng Pet is 5 years old, 2 feet tall and a ‘Luk Thep’ — literally, Child Angel — doll. He’s also just one doll of thousands in the latest Thai craze that recently enraptured, and then exasperated, large swathes of Thai people. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/thailand-luk-thep-dolls/)
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