After nearly a week of quiet sleep undisturbed by snoring, a Dusit area woman investigated the other side of the enormous body pillow to find her husband had been dead for quite some time.
According to Siwaporn Techarapat, 34, the discovery of husband Vichai Techarapat’s body was mildly distressing, however the presence of the two-meter, plush body pillow had precluded anything resembling physical or emotional contact for the past four years, essentially rendering them invisible to each other.
“Early in our marriage, Vichai would sometimes slide an ankle or shoulder over the pillow, but he quickly understood the bed is a place for intimacy with very comfortable, snuggy pillows,” she said. “Instead of risking the vulnerability of human contact … better to wrap ourselves around soft, reassuring yet inanimate objects, like the teddy bears we squeezed as toddlers.”
Siwaporn said she hadn’t seen Vichai since Wednesday, when they had a brief discussion about whether to join this past weekend’s protests, a conversation which quickly ended in silent expressions of reproach and disappointment.
