Posted on 11/15/2009 7:50:25 AM PST by Saije
She wanted to give him a glimpse of home.
Lesan Gouge’s plan was to snap pictures of herself at various locations in Destin, and send them to her boyfriend Jeff who is deployed.
Then, her innate sense of humor took hold and “Replacement Jeff” joined her in the photographs.
Replacement Jeff is a “high class” blowup doll, dressed in shorts, a striped shirt and a baseball cap. At about five-feet-tall with a painted on mustache, Replacement Jeff doesn’t resemble the real Jeff, but he’s great for the photographs.
“This one is so quiet,” Gouge said of the doll with a laugh. “He’s a good listener, and he doesn’t say anything back… he’s awesome - he’ll go anywhere you want him to go.”
The duo have posed together once a day since the real Jeff left. The pictures show them in a variety of locations including outside the grocery store with Replacement Jeff sitting in the cart, kayaking (Replacement Jeff was strapped in) and out to dinner.
“I started thinking about what it must be like when you’re half a world away from home, over the holidays especially,” Gouge said. “I thought how nice it would be to have a certain place at home to think about every day. So, I decided to make ‘Replacement Jeff’ so that I could take him places, take pictures, and then let ‘Real Jeff’ have that hometown experience.”
Gouge said she has earned her fair share of strange looks when she brings out Replacement Jeff, but said once people hear why she’s doing it they appreciate what she’s doing and sometimes jump into the pictures with them.
As for Jeff, Gouge said, he had no idea she was doing it until he received a month’s worth of photographs in the mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at nwfdailynews.com ...
Speaking of dolls....
definitely not guilty. I wonder if replacement Jeff is anatomically correct?
Agreed...
innate sense of humor - refreshing. Lucky Jeff, even if he is over in Sandland for a while.
Man, that’s one lucky hunk of vinyl....
Hang on just one second.
Inquiring minds want to know:
I mean, if he is a "high class blowup doll" (which I doubt with such a tacky mustache), it should be able to be proven. I personally question his "high class" qualifications...he just looks like one of those ordinary social climber blowup dolls to me.
Now now thats just his inflation valve !
Kinky.....
She’ll ditch Jeff and stick with the rubber man.
If my morals were lower I would gladly stand in for the doll. But I’d hate to have someone stand in for me.
Oh My!
I noticed she has the same dress on in all eight pictures, shown at the link. She must have taken them all in one day?
It must be tough on her boyfriend, leaving someone who looks like her, behind? She is gorgeous!
A Marine I worked with had had a life-sized cardboard cut-out made of him for some awards ceremony a couple of years before he went overseas.
While he was deployed, his wife would take the cardboard cut-out to various occasions and have herself photographed with it and send the pictures to Andy (the Marine.)
We all got a big kick out of those.
Would like to see the photos that did not make the news..
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