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Meet the woman who married the Eiffel Tower. (Image Courtesy the BBC)

The Woman Who Married the Eiffel Tower is a BBC documentary that aired last year and is about… wait for it… a woman who marries the Eiffel Tower.

But it’s a joke, right? You can’t marry a building. You can’t make love to a building. Oh how naïve we are. Since she did marry the building (not legally perhaps but there was a ceremony) and she is intimate with it. Yeah, picture that for a second and then we’ll continue.

Her name is Erika La Tour Eiffel, of course since she took her husband’s last name. Thirty-six year old La Tour Eiffel is an former US Army soldier from San Francisco. She is a former world champion in archery. She claims she was driven to succeed in archery by her love for her bow, Lance. OK, let’s picture that for a second before moving on.

Things apparently didn’t work out with Lance and now she now has married the Eiffel Tower. The ceremony occurred last year with a group of friends in Paris. Apparently Lance wasn’t the marrying type of bow but the Eiffel Tower seems to project the air of stability that Erika is looking for in an inanimate lover.

Regarding the romantic aspect of loving a national monument La Tour Eiffel says, "There is a huge problem with being in love with a public object," she says sadly. "The issue of intimacy – or rather lack of it – is forever present."

Apparently feeling romantically inclined towards buildings, structures and other inanimate objects has already had some precedent set. A Swedish woman took the German name of the Berlin Wall as her surname to become Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer. She coined the phrase "objectum sexual" (OS) 30 years ago and documents her love for, and marriage to the Berlin Wall. Berliner-Mauer runs a website for people who find love in inanimate objects and claims that their preference is not the result of mental instability of any kind but that inanimate objects have souls and are capable of giving and receiving love saying that, "while unusual in Western society, in Eastern cultures people routinely believe objects have souls. It is perfectly normal."

On that note, gentle readers, I leave you with this final questions. If getting it on with the Berlin Wall or the Eiffel Tower is perfectly normal, what is left to call stone cold crazy?

Check out the part one of The Woman Who Married the Eiffel Tower below: