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{{quote|''That right hand of yours... I've got it displayed in my bedroom. I go to sleep with it every night. Doesn't that make you hard?''|'''Barus'''
{{quote|''The only motive that there ever was was to completely control the person - the person I found physically attractive - and keep them with me for as long as possible. Even if it meant just keeping a part of them.''|'''Jeffery Dahmer'''}}
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* In Lamberto Bava's ''Macabre'', a woman's lover is beheaded in a car crash. She continues to have the affair with his head...
* Oogie Boogie does this by accident in ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''. He finds Sally's [[Show Some Leg|bare, flirtatious leg]] quite attractive until he finds out it's not actually attached to anything.
* [[The End - or Is It?]] ending of ''[[Psycho III]]''.
* In the movie ''[[May]]'', the titular character dismembers different people so she can sew all the parts together and create the perfect friend. Those parts are all things she particularly admired and desired, such as her crush's hands and her co-worker's neck.
* King Stefan in ''[[Maleficent]]'' keeps Maleficent's amputated wings in a glass case for nearly twenty years -- and apparently spends quite a bit of time ''talking to them''.
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* The tale of ''Isabella and the Pot of Basil'' from [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]]'s ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]'' (and later on, a [[John Keats|Keats]] poem) tells of the titular character preserving the head of her lover inside the aforementioned pot. 19th and 20th century depictions such as those painted by Prerraphaelites like [[wikipedia:Isabella and the Pot of Basil|William Holman Hunt]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705171241/http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-1907.html Waterhouse] or [[wikipedia:Image:Isabella and the Pot of Basil.jpg|John White Alexander]] fall squarely in this trope.
* Subverted in the ''[[Black Dagger Brotherhood]]'', Zsadist keeps a skull in his room. The skull being {{spoiler|the skull of his former owner, who he killed and cut the head off of to make sure she was dead.}} He keeps the skull around so he can remind himself that she's dead, often by stroking it.
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* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Magister Illyrio mentions that he still has the hands of his second wife, who died of plague many years earlier. It's not implied that this is anything more than a weird keepsake though.
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* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Love & Monsters" has a variant in this, in that the main character's girlfriend is attacked by a monster which leaves her as a just a concrete head (but still alive) - yet it's stated (see the page quote) that they still have a "love life". Interpret it however you will.
* In the ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "Day One", Jack holds the Doctor's hand... after the jar he usually keeps it in is broken.
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