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alt="The Girlfriend Lap Pillow" border="0"/></a><div class="pic_caption"> <p>The Girlfriend Lap Pillow</p> <strong><a href="/web/20111007181605/http://www.gizmag.com/go/4148/picture/11900/" class="orange">Image Gallery</a> (2 images)</strong> </div> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div class="article_body"> <div id="top_unit"></div> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007181605js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> <p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><strong>Via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007181605/http://www.nifty.com/" target="_blank">Nifty</a> (Japanese)</strong> June 12, 2005 A couple of months back we wrote up the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007181605/http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/3123/%0D%0A" 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Unlike the boyfriend arm pillow which has a heartbeat and is soft and snugly, the girlfriend lap pillow comes with realistic-to-the-touch legs and a tight short polyester skirt in your choice of black or red.</p> <p>The girlfriend lap pillow sells for 9429 yen from Corporation Train, 130-0005 Higashi Komagata Ku, Tokyo Sumida 2 - 9 - 2 Telephone: 03-5608-7261</body></html></p>  <div id="bottom_unit"> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007181605js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> </div> </div>  <span class="title">Share</span> <div id="article_share" class="dotsontop"> <span class="as_button"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007181605/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="gizmag">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007181605js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> twttr.events.bind('tweet', function(event) { if (event) { var targetUrl; 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