Maybe, like Pinocchio, she was a wooden puppet he had brought to life.
For the past ten nights, they'd played their parts as if they were wooden puppets.
"I am a wooden puppet with a long nose," he says.
Somehow, she found herself at the private side door, her body moving like a wooden puppet.
Small wooden puppets can be bought for $2 or $3.
His every movement seemed military, like the jerkiness of a wooden puppet on strings.
He only says one line- "I hate that little wooden puppet".
The shirts show a wooden puppet with its arms flung out, a red city skyline behind.
It was a little like talking to a wooden puppet.
But he abandoned her out of fear and is slowly turning back into a wooden puppet.