THE LOVE DOCTOR
Anatomically alluring RealDolls keep thousands of lonely men company around the world. But the lifelike figures can get damaged. And when that happens, those men call Slade Fiero. Meet America's sex-doll repairman.
If you go to Davis, California, and try to pay a visit to Slade Fiero, it's quite possible that you will drive right past his house. Because of his peculiar line of work, one that gives him a unique vantage point on the wormy root cellar of the male psyche, you might expect to find him somewhere dank and drippy and catacombed. A place, maybe, like that tumbledown Victorian in Fight Club. But what you'll find instead, under a cloudless blue Sacramento Valley sky, is a well-tended suburban house. There's an orange tree basking in the sunshine and a wrought-iron fence around the lawn. There are tinkling wind chimes and cacti in terra-cotta pots. Elementary-school kids float down the street in a bicycle squadron just as Fiero opens the front door.
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