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To be fair this guy is probably not as far out there as you might think. Consider for one that quite a lot of people believe in transubstantiation; a bit of bread and wine becomes the body of their savior. I don't think this is too far from that, this doll becomes in some way a real companion for him.

Likewise, his little invented back-stories for his dolls are not so materially different than say my relationship with my girlfriend. I don't and can't truly know my girlfriends existence; everything I know about her is basically a story I tell myself based on the things she says to me and what I assume or surmise myself. If it turned out one of these days that she had been completely and totally dishonest with me about who she was - everything I thought I knew about her was not true - in a lot of ways our relationship would have been just as much a fantasy as Davecats.

I'm not prepared to go in for it myself, or even consider it totally healthy and desirable...but he seems to have a good handle on it and I wouldn't be too quick to judge him. Maybe he is a little nuts, but so are most people I have met.