For 20 years, a gay couple from New York has done both with the help of "Digby," a doll they purchased from a Paris flea market on a cold spring weekend.
According to The Daily.com, Mark Kirby and A.J. Sapolnick decided to "adopt" Digby for the same reason other couples decide to have kids or adopt children.
"Our intention was to create a family," Kirby said. "And Digby was going to be part of our family."
Kirby and Sapolnick had been together for six years before Digby joined them, and since the "blessed event," the trio have been inseparable.
His parents take him to Central Park to ride the carousel, they threw a bar mitzvah for him when he turned 13, and he's traveled with them to exotic locations like Mumbai, Venice, Egypt and even Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where news of his imminent arrival had already been relayed.
"When we got to the hotel, the lounge singer was expecting him," Kirby said, laughing.
Reactions in America aren't always as positive. Some of the couple's friends accuse them of playing with dolls and won't include him on invitations for holiday parties.
Because Digby is not human, he has no chance of inheriting anything from his parents when they die. However, Sapolnick's niece, Mia Perovetz, 29, has agreed to take him into her home when that happens.
Read more at The Daily.com.
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