“The Guy Pushing the Mannequin”

This is Ned Nefner and his wife Teagan.

Mr. Nefer said he was born in Syracuse and in the 1980s spent some time at the Children’s Home of Jefferson County in Watertown, where he said he met Teagan when she was just a head. He said he built a body for the mannequin and the two were “married” Oct. 31, 1986, in California.

They are traveling to the former Children’s Home on State Street, where the two met, he said. Mr. Nefer said he has not been back to Watertown since 1988.

A social welfare examiner “said she heard he may have been married to a human but that his wife had died.”

“I’m not sure if this is his way of dealing with the death or that this is some way of coping with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder),” she said. “But he seemed sincere. … [and] quite happy.”

A Facebook page called The Guy Pushing the Mannequin chronicles Ned and Tegan’s trip through New York, and features dozens of photographs of the two on the road, in tattoo parlors, and at costume parties.

This is Doll News, and that doll is incredible.

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