To find this heartbreaking?

[MaiaRindell]

It's a story about a Japanese girl who didn't know her father. She was being bullied at at school so her mother hired an actor to play her father twice a month. The girls has bonded with him and he tells her he loves her. This makes me want to cry.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-46261699

That’s fucked up. I understand mums thinking but it’s a disaster in the long run.

And mum wants to marry him!!

That really is fucked up.

wtf

I just read this too, I think her mum is living a bit of a fantasy life. I really hope the daughter never finds out he isn’t really her dad.

That poor young woman, what a terrible betrayal of her trust.

However unlikely, I read it wondering what would happen if the daughter or her own kids ever needed a kidney or bone marrow. It's just awful. But I know a mum in this country who has told her DD that stepdad is her actual dad so...

There was an article about this trend in (I think) the New Yorker, or maybe NYT.

It was about how large numbers of young Chinese people hire actors to behave as their boyfriend/fiancé so that they get their families off their back enough to pursue a career.

It's madness really.

Fake boyfriend seems to be a very popular theme in slightly illogical American romances of the 99p on Kindle type. It never occurred to me that people would do it for real. I wonder if they do it as a second job, in addition to a proper one, I mean, it's not something that you list on your CV really, is it?

I read that this morning - poor girl. I kind of feel for all three of them involved in a way but I hope the mother has disposed of any paperwork as that would just destroy the daughter. It probably seemed like an easy way out at the time.