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She’s like the real thing, only not

In September, the Treviso, Italy, adult doll maker Diego Bortolin — who specializes in lifelike, precisely detailed, fully flexible, anatomically correct models of humans — told reporters that he had completed a special order for a 50-year-old businessman whom he would not name but who paid Bortolin the equivalent of $18,000 (compared to his normal price of about $5,000) to go beyond his generic “young woman” to create a replica of the very girlfriend who ...

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