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Woman marries train station
Why not, eh? Why not marry a train station if that's what your heart truly desires?
Some people love men. Some love women. Some love both. And some - or to be accurate, one person - is head-over-heels in love with a railway station.
45-year-old Carol says she's been smitten with Santa Fe station in California since she was a young girl, and so decided to make her relationship with the place official.
The nuptials have not been officially recognised by the government, but Carol says she and the station tied the knot nearly 18 months ago, and they have been very happily wed ever since.
"When we got married, I stood there and I told her that I take it as my partner," says Carol, who calls the station 'Daidra'. "It was the happiest day of our lives."
She visits the station every day, travelling 45 minutes by bus to visit her spouse.
"When I get there I say hello to her - I then walk around the block circling around her, trying not to let anyone notice I am talking," she says.
"There is a private bit where two walls meet, I go there to touch her, which I do by leaning against her with my clothes on.
"When I'm touching her, I feel as though it actually holds me and kisses me. I don't have physical sex with the station in public, I want to be respectful.
"I wouldn't do that with a human in public so why would I do it in this case?"
Carol identifies as 'Objectum-Sexual', a form of sexuality focused on specific inanimate objects. The term was first coined by Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, a Swedish woman who claimed to be "married" to the Berlin Wall from 1979 until her death in 2015.
In 2008 an American woman named Arika made headlines after "marrying" the Eiffel Tower. She later founded the organisation OS Internationale, for others who identify as Objectum-Sexual.
There are thought to be around 40 OS woman in the world, many of who also have Asperger's Syndrome.
According to psychotherapist Jerry Brooker, OS women are motivated by a need for control.
"Someone who falls in love with objects can control that relationship on their own terms," he told the makers of a documentary om the subject. "Their objects will not let them down. That is extremely attractive for a person who is otherwise often desperately lonely."