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Lock your bedroom doors and linen closets! Who knows how many of these pillowphiles are running around out there.

Man marries pillow

True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.

Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.

In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.

'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend.

'They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,' they added.

The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times - it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, last November.

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[rollo]

Finally a happy story in current events!

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[Ya-ta Boy]

[charliebrown84]

Hmm, this isn't really current news. I remember this story from over a year ago. Still an interesting read. Hell will freeze over before the whole world accepts gay marriage, but marrying your pillow? Go right ahead!

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Adds a whole new meaning to "cushion the blow".

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What if his jilted nerdy ex-gf ran up during the ceremony and grabbed the pillow and took off while screaming "Dakimakura byontae chinjja! Ship-sekki-ya!"

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[Space Bar]

Come to think of it, when I was a teenager some of my more serious relationships were with a couple of pillows and a mattress.

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I vaguely remember my (much) older sister having a pillow emblazoned with a pic of maybe either Shawn Cassidy or John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever).

It'd probably sell today at Sotheby's for a grand.

Or not. Whatever.

[Steelrails]

I wonder if they played that David Allen Coe song at the wedding...I can't post the title and I don't think I can even get away with posting a link so you'll have to find it for yourselves....

[flakfizer]

Well, pillows are good in bed.

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