The Fabulous Bizarre Gay Couple Raising A Doll Named Digby As Their Actual Child
The story of Mark Kirby and A.J. Sapolnick raising a doll — Digby– as their son has to be a joke, right? The trio travels the world together, and there are photo albums (including a baby book) to prove it. The couple found Digby in Paris, at a flea market, where he was covered in grime. But don’t ever call him a doll.
That’s a “four letter word,” exclaim the New York couple. “It wasn’t our intention to have a toy,” says Kirby. “Our intention was to create a family, and Digby was going to be part of our family.” Even if he doesn’t talk back? Cry? Date? Age? Apparently.
Digby has seen the pyramids, had a bar mitzvah at age 13, and wears bespoke clothing (often to match what his two daddies are wearing). Raised by a couple of 26 years — who, The Daily concludes, live in a fabulous NYC circle of “opera openings, art shows, and Mayor Bloomberg’s annual Gay Pride barbecue” — the toy is Mark and A.J.’s answer to what they saw around them some twenty years ago: all their straight friends having children. They wanted in, but they didn’t want to change their lifestyles.
They didn’t want him to leave for college either, it seems.
This is either the way I want to raise my children, or some bizarre case study about why gays shouldn’t raise children. I can’t decide.
Even Sebastian Flyte (Brideshead Revisited) left his teddy bear Aloysius behind running away from his over-bearing mother and religion (Catholic).
These two are just bizarre — but its their money and their lives, doing no harm, so what’s the BFD?
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Ridiculous, and why do gay MEN want to raise a baby? That’s more like needy and stupid straight women. It’s not normal for men to want a baby, the only way a man could truly want a baby is if his testosterone levels are ridiculously low, or if he has two sets of genitals; a cooch and a vaj
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Actual true story from about thirty years ago: When I was in college, I was a cook in a restaurant to make tuition. My head chef and his wife worked together there, and always arranged to have their days off together for their daughter Debbie. (name changed by me) “We took Debbie to the zoo yesterday.” or when they went on vacation to Vegas, “I borrowed some money from Debbie’s college fund, now I have to pay it back…”
You guessed it; I walked back into the storeroom one day and there was a doll sleeping in an empty box with pillows in it. That was Debbie. Later, they showed me pictures of Debbie in the park, Debbie climbing a tree, etc. People would give Debbie clothes their kids had outgrown. Mom and dad would walk around holding Debbie and generally freak people out.
So, when you say, “This is either the way I want to raise my children, or some bizarre case study about why gays shouldn’t raise children. I can’t decide.” keep in mind that this was a heterosexual, married, employed couple, thirty years ago. So I don’t think sexual orientation has anything to do with this…
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@Adonis-of-Fire: You are just plain stupid… child raising is something of which men and women both can take part. If you were straight, you would be a deadbeat dad.
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At least these freaks should’ve had a “Real Baby” made in the image of Joe Jonas or Chris Pine.
That little oddity they’re raising looks like an alien from Alpha Centauri.
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@Adonis-of-Fire: Honey, just because you have 0 paternal instincts doesn’t mean we all do. Or were you just being an attention-hungry provocateur?
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@Adonis-of-Fire: Yep. Better that they lead lives of self absorption, anonymous sex, and drug usage.
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@christopher di spirito: Considering they did this atleast 17 years ago, I doubt that was an option…
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OMG how creepy! This simply cannot be true. If it is, tell me where they are so I can stay FAR AWAY.
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They live in a fabulous NYC circle of “opera openings, art shows, and Mayor Bloomberg’s annual Gay Pride barbecue”?
So they’re like the “real” A-List in New York? Why aren’t they up there on the Real Housewives with Countess LuMann and Bethenny? Can’t be crazier than Kelly Bensimon!
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@WEIRD: Haters hate because that’s all they know. Now don’t be blaming a one-in-a-million couple of eccentrics for creating “hate.” Proper blame, though, can be placed on the Roman Cult, the Moron Church, born-again hypocrites, and double-sleaze politicians, Ditto-heads, and all the other minions.
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Bizarre and more than slightly creepy.