I am sorry it has taken me so long to write and thank you for sending another tape for my Granddaughter Stephanie. It was much appreciated. Last Sunday we took a walk on a section of Sandy Neck beach and all along the trail Stephanie would tell us she would see signs that the fairies had been there. Then she found what she told us was their fairy house and her Uncle tried to get the picture. I am afraid it has more of Stephanie but if you look in the picture you will see how something light settles in the left hand corner where Step said the fairy house was. Her Uncle Jeff said it was the fairy dust. I had signed her up to build fairy houses and your book was to be read in November but it was too cold. Hoping they will do this again this spring or in the summer. She has made believers out of us all. She loves your books and the tape. Again thanks so much!!!

Grandma Barb

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My grandaughter visited with us recently and talked her cousin Tyler into helping her build a Fairy House. I helped a little. She asked me if I would send it to your web site and ask that it be added to the pictures she had taken when at the Sanford, Maine library.

I am not very good at this sort of thing but here goes. Thank you for listening.
Wes King (Papa)

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Hello -
I have Fairy Houses and Kristen's Fairy House in my house and they are beloved to me and my grandsons. We have spent many many hours creating fairy houses. What a joy. Thank you for making it available to us.
Thank you,
Jan Huneycutt Lightner

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Hello!
Just a little Fairy Hello to say that my daughters, husband and I enjoyed meeting Tracy and Barry at the Fairy Festival in Glen Rock, PA. We live in Baltimore and we thrilled to discover the Fairy Festival just a 45 min. drive away.

We love the DVD Kristen's Fairy House and have build some fairy houses of our own. We also have had a fairy party. We will try to send pictures. We hope to travel to Maine sometime to see all of the fabulous fairy houses!

Thanks again to Tracy and Barry for a wonderful chat.
Amy Kline

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Hello Tracy Kane!
A couple of years ago my mother, daughter and I were visiting LL Bean in Freeport and you were there for a book signing. My three year old daughter and I built a fairy house. She was immediately hooked and we found ourselves reading the stories for the rest of our visit in NH.

Since this time ( she is now 5 ) we build fairy houses every camping trip we take. It has become a tradition. We live in the west, so our fairy houses can vary in content. My daughter has involved her 11 year old cousin and whenever they are together, they go off and build one.

Recently, my daughter had a fairy birthday party and all the kids built fairy houses! They had a great time. I just wanted to thank you. It has proven to be a very important learning/teaching, memory creating idea. It has also given me an idea for an activity/event in the school I work in! :) Any chance you'd come out west and do an author's visit? Just an idea..
Sincerely, Karen Millenbach

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Florida Fairy Home
This is my daughter's Kailey, Maggie and Annie's Florida Fairy home. It has a coconut for shelter and palm leaves for a roof and lots of shells for beds and tubs and even a clam shell shaped pool. Enjoy we sure do!

Mary Ann & Chris Toia

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Hello there,

I had mentioned a year ago about our summer Fairy Camp ...it was so popular that we have doubled the weeks this year. The girls' favourite activity HANDS DOWN was making the fairy houses. We made them inside large baskets so that they could take them home and I still hear stories of the girls sending and receiving notes via their fairy houses, and they take great care of them. I can see ours ouside our front window, hanging from a tree. The girls made fairy furniture and clay plates and cups.

We also went for walks and made fairy houses as we went along.
The video was very much enjoyed. Please bring it out on DVD! It is a perfect length and so real.
Thank you!

Natalie Gomersall, Enchanted Events/ Enchanted Fairy Camp, Calgary, Canada

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This is our story to share...
We had a wonderful time at the opening of "Fairy Houses - The Musical".
First we had dinner at Flat Breads pizza and stopped to pose for a picture in front of the ferries. Then our little fairies danced around the anchor and bell monuments until it was curtain time. The doors opened and we immediately headed for the snack table because pizza and salad just wasn't enough for these growing little fairies. After animal crackers and apple juice, we got our programs and waited in line for an autograph from and a picture with author Tracy Kane. The story was beautiful and the acting was quite impressive. We look forward to coming again!
Christina St. Cyr

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Hello,
I just placed an order for the Fairy Houses Series. Does Ms Kane personalize those books when she signs them?? If so - could she address them to Kristen. She is my daughter, and a true fan of the Kristen's Fairy Houses movie. She is a cancer survivor --(brain cancer) and just celebrated her 6th birthday. She is a happy healthy and very energetic little girl! Thank Ms. Kane for writing such a lovely story -- I was surprised to see the other books, and can't wait to read those as well! We were on the waiting list at the book signing in Falmouth Maine at Ocean View Nursing Facility. We were sad we couldn't attend. Hope all went well. And we hope to visit the Childrens Musuem if time allows!!
Thank you again & God Bless.

Jodie Rickett
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Hello Fairies,

Is there any chance that "Kristen's Fairy House" might come out on DVD? And when? I buy a copy as soon as you can offer one. Please notify me by email.

We are no "tekkies", in fact we have no TV, but the fact that my daughter has worn out her favorite VHS (which lead to tears since it's not available anymore) makes me prefer the DVD a thousand times over a VHS. I'm not buying another VHS... DVD's take up less space too! Please, please, a DVD!

Thanks,
Birgit De Gregorio
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Please note: Yes, Kristen's Fairy House is now available on DVD!
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Hello,
My granddaughter, 4 1/2, has love the Fairy Houses book and Kristen's Fairy House video very much. I have to admit, all the adults love it too.

She has been inspired to create a fairy house at Granny's house, and one at her own home. The imagination is beautiful. She has grown keenly interested in Monarch butterflies as a result.

Thanks to Ms. Kane for a gorgeous idea!
Jan Martelle
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I found out about you because I saw (and liked) a book that was given to a friend. I am giving my 3 girls the 3 books and video for Christmas along with a play fairy house and some fairies. We are having a fairy Christmas. When spring comes we should have some stories and pics to send. Thanks for the great books.
Sue Kann
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Hi - I did get your Fairy Houses and Fairy Flight books! Oh my - they are MORE than I thought they would be! Thank you so very much.

PS - I'm what you call a 'snow bird' - Florida/Michigan residences. I'm SO looking forward to building 'my own' fairy house in the spring! Thanks again!
Eileen Reno
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My daughter and son spent the whole summer building fairy houses wherever we went. There are houses in our yard, at my mothers, and in many states, as we spend a lot of time camping. Because of the wonderful fairy books my daughter has a new love for nature and the world of fairies.
Debby Keiran
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Dear Tracy,
My daughter Samantha and I attended the reading of Fairy Houses at the Groton Public Library in Groton, CT. Since that time Samantha has been building fairy houses everywhere we go, including her school.

Samantha is a student in Mrs. Landroche's kindergarten class. I read Fairy Houses to her class. I also brought along lots of natures best materials for building fairy houses. Below is what the children had to say about their experience building fairy houses.

Per the Students of Mrs. Landroche's Kindergarten class:

"We made fairy houses. We used bark, sticks, shells, leaves, pine cones, rocks, grasses, berries, wood chips and flowers. Everything was from nature. It is good to build fairy houses near a garden or the woods or a meadow or somewhere where you can find lots of stuff to build with. We built our houses in a garden near our classroom. We loved building fairy houses. It was really fun."

They now call that garden area "Fairy House Village". They even built a fairy school! It was great fun to share your book and love of fairies with the children. The class will be reading Fairy Boat and Fairy Flight within the next few weeks. Mrs. Landroche is hooked and plans on building fairy house every year.

I love your books and it is wonderful to see the joy in Samantha's and the other children's faces when they work on and visit their fairy houses.

Thank you for the inspiration.

Mrs. Landroche's Kindergarten class
and Amy and Samantha Gudis
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I just found Emily and her Nana's picture (me) on the web site. I must tell you what a fun time I had. There is a child in us all. I grew up in Nova Scotia and was for three years a Brownie. I was in the "Fairy Patrol". It shaped my life until now and I am 62! My other granddaughter in California is a fairy lover too:)

Emily and I went to the river the next morning to show the family and you won't believe it but all the chestnuts were gone!! Just as in your book. What a thrill.

Thank You!
Carole Curry
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Hi, my kids, Adeline and Harrison have your Fairy Houses book and love it! We make fairy houses often and will have to take pictures and e-mail them to you. Thank you for your wonderful books! We look forward to receiving the one we ordered a couple of days ago!
Tara Conrow
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Hi!
We met at the Boston Show and I mentioned that we, too, are fairy house builders. These are photos from last summer. They (the houses) are still at Lake Whitehall which is in Hopkinton, MA.
Thank you for all the joy your books and video has brought to our lives. We are so grateful to savor the gifts of nature. We have even received notes from the Woodland Fairy and the Meadow Fairy!
Sincerely,
Robin Batchelder


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My daughter and I were just so excited about receiving the lastest addition to the Fairy Houses Series that we weren't very patient in waiting! We love the latest book "Fairy Flight", especially since we raise butterflies every summer. Having the Fairies turn into Monarch butterflies is absolutely wonderful!
Lori Kobular
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Dear Tracy Kane
Thanks for getting Fairy Flight to me quickly.
If possible, let me know when new ones come out. I have two "addicted" granddaughters!

Sincerely, Ethel Wynn
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I am very pleased to be able to offer another "Fairy Houses" book (FAIRY FLIGHT) to my customers. Great narrative and illustrations and educational too! I highly recommend all of the "Fairy Houses Series".
Juanita J. Loven, Books, Etc., Guttenberg, IA
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Dear Tracy,
My mother met you earlier this summer at Mackworth Island during a garden tour. She told you about my daughter's idea for starting a book club with her friends. My mother suggested that I email you, with pictures attached.

My daughter Kate was a bit sad at the end of Kindergarten. She decided to start a book group with a few of her friends. Her idea was to choose a book for me to read, then do a related craft and have some kind of thematic snack to go along with the book. For the first meeting, Kate had no trouble choosing her favorite books, Fairy Houses and Fairy Boats. We went to a nearby craft store and found some inexpensive model sail boats, perfectly suited for fairies. We got fabric markers to decorate the sails along with shells and starfish to decorate the boat.

I read the stories aloud as the girls sat on blankets on our deck. Our guests were mesmerized by the stories and illustrations. Then we made the fairy boats (my husband had assembled the wooden models ahead of time), coloring and attaching the sails and decorating the decks. After they were done, they launched their boats in a kiddy pool. I had made each child a tiny fairy out of beads and fabric flower pedals to take home. We ended the event with sugar cookies sprinkled with fairy dust.


The attached pictures show the entire group holding up their completed fairy boats. One picture is of a friend named Paige, who is holding her boat and fairy (with fuchsia cover-up on) and the other is of my daughter Kate in a blue and green striped suit.

We are huge fans of your stories. My mother just purchased your newest book for us, Fairy Flight. Thank you for writing such wonderful books, stories that have sparked the imagination of my girls. Every summer we go to a cottage in Belfast, ME, which is now surrounded by the most adorable fairy houses. We're on our way there now and I know the first thing Kate will do when she gets out of the car is to check her fairy houses.

We look forward to reading your books for years to come.
Thank you, Kelly Sanders
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for sending the picture of Taylor and Madison's fairy house. This will be such a fond memory for both of them. Long live the fairies!
Best regards, Joanie Wendt


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Could you tell me when the next Tracy Kane book in the Fairy Houses series will be released? My daughter and I enjoy these books so much and we can't wait for the next one in the series! We sure hope it is soon!
Thanks, Lori Kobular
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LOVE this site. Have a granddaughter who went to Baxter and another granddaughter who is in love with faries!!!!!!
Bonnie Stanley
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Both my children ( boy 5, girl 3) LOVE LOVE LOVE the Fairy Houses book. We spent an entire day collecting things from nature and built two different fairy houses. Which, of course, the fairies visits every night ") We attended the Blueberries and Moose literature fair JUST to get our Fairy Houses book singed by Tracy. Thank you Tracy!!!! The kids were so excited to meet the person who wrote the book.
Becca Danforth, Maine
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Our family loved your video! Thanks for telling a beautiful story.
Mary Christine McMahon, Missouri
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I am hosting a Fairy Camp in the summer and am just so excited to read about this video (Kristen's Fairy House.)
Natalie Gomersall, Alberta, Canada
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We are avid fairy house builders in our backyard, front yard and wherever we are that lends itself. My 3 3/4 year old daughter has been swept up through Tracy's video and books since she was 2 years old! We look forward to the next one and a possible event with Tracy. Kai'li is psyched and we'll be in town with grandma and her aunt and the whole family!

I will keep watching the web.......thanks.......Lesley
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Dear Tracy Kane
After reading your article "Fairy Tale" in the Sunday paper, it made me wish I were a child again. At the age of 80, however, it's not possible!
Having three great grandchildren, I would love to be able to purchase your two books and video for their Christmas present.
They are at a great age for Fairies.
Looking forward to reading them myself and giving joy to them for Christmas and many years to come.
Sincerely,
Ellen Selwood
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Here is a picture of my daughter Shannon with her first Fairy House.

Russ
Newburyport, MA
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Thank you so much for sending "Fairy Boat" out to my daughter!! She can't wait to get it, she will be so happy when it arrives! She is a true believer in Fairies! Her room is decorated with Fairies, she had a Fairy Birthday Party and she is going to be a Fairy for Halloween!

We came across your book at Winterthur after visiting their "Enchanted Woods" ( a special garden for Fairies and believers too!) and we both love it! She is always looking for things to use to build a Fairy House. And the best part of the book for her is in the end when the Fairies turn into Monarch Butterflies!

We raise Painted Lady Butterflies and Swallowtail Butterflies every summer, and this summer we are raising 25 Monarchs!! We have released 12 of them already and we will probably be releasing 5 or 6 today and have more hatching today too!! Your book is simply wonderful!! Thank you again so very much!
Sincerely yours, Lori Kobular
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I want to thank you for sharing your imagination with my cousin and I. We both had so much fun in Castine at the Wilson Museum. The fairy house building is something we'll keep with us for years to come. It was so much fun we decided to build fairy houses at our own homes...and other places. If there will be any other fairy events in Castine or around that area I would love to come. Write me and let me know so we don't miss out on all the fun.
Thank you, Sam and Avery (cousin)
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We walked through the Enchanted Forest and came upon several fairy houses... here is a couple to add to your collection.... Roy

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Hello Tracy and Barry!!
Thank you so much for the great time we had at Macworth on Saturday. We love your website and it was great to see all the pictures of the different fairy houses. Today we went back to check on our fairy houses, and guess what??? The fairies had paid a visit to our house. All of the fairy food was gone!!! The bath water had been used. We were also happy to see the wonderful new sign introducing the fairy village!!! What a great idea!! In the future we hope to make more fairy houses. When we do, we will send pictures.

Thanks again for a terrific experience,
Juliana, Bridget and Misha
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Hi,
My daughter Julie age 6 loved the book about Kristen's fairyhouses and couldn't wait to make her own. Her brother Kevin age 4 also helped. I can't wait myself to see the video.

Kathy, Enfield CT
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I met you, Tracey, at BEA...Sunday afternoon and fell in love with your Fairy Houses book....and bought one for my neice for her birthday. I just wanted to report to you that she LOVED it and after reading it to her as a bed time story....FIRST thing when she woke up, she wanted to make fairy houses.

We were both visiting my mom, her grandma, at the time...who donated a special "secret garden" to us for the project. IT WAS PURE MAGIC.....we made fairy houses.....and more fairy houses.....and had to keep checking on them for days to see if the fairies came. Fairy dust magically appeared at our fairy house doors.....delighting us completely and causing many more hours of fairy house construction.

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH for such an awesome book and awesome project. We plan to build more every time we visit grandma's house.....and probably a few will find there way into our own back yards too! I got some really cute jpg pictures, if you'd like to see.

Much aloha from Maui, Eve
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Hello, As a small girl my family and I vacationed in Maine on Monhegan Island. It was there that we started building fairy houses. We called them elf houses then. My Mother thought of it, from the title of that patch of forest, the Enchanted Woods. As we would walk along the trails, we'd often stop to build these little houses. That was twenty eight years ago. I just found your video in our town library, and am amazed at the changes on the island, but I am glad that children still build the houses. I think it's neat that there is a sign now, directing them to use only natural materials. I watched the video with my two children, and my mother. We plan to make a trip out there next summer to share the magic with the next generation. Thank you for reminding me, Bobbi Double ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hello. My two sons and I met you at Poofberry's last Saturday. We were also with a few other women and four girls. Our large group separated into two smaller groups to build fairyhouses. We are wondering when the pictures you took will be on the web site. Alex and Joey and I went out today to enjoy this gorgeous fall day to collect things and build a fairyhouse in our own back yard. We are excited to visit it tomorrow morning to see if anyone visited. We really enjoy your book. Thank you for showing us about fairyhouses.
Julie, Westbrook, Maine
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My children and I are really enjoying the book Fairy Houses which their grandmother bought them after visiting Enchanted Woods at Winterthur in Delaware. Enclosed are photos for your web site of the first fairy houses they made.

Enclosed is a check for the video Kristen's Fairy House.
Susan (from Roswell, GA.)
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Dear Tracy,
After seeing your video "Kristen's Fairy House" my granddaughter Mary Clara and I built not 1, but 4 fairy houses in Wetherbe Woods in Castine, Maine. What fun!! Mary Clara is expecting a baby brother or sister in September, so she was inspired to build a nursery for a fairy's baby. Thank you,
Mary Ellen, from Houston, Texas

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I found out about you (Kristen's Fairy House) a couple of years ago through Mothering Magazine, while we were temporarily living in San Francisco. To our surprise and delight, the first thing our older daughter wanted to do upon our return to our home in Japan last year was to build a fairy house. Aya and her father built the house together last summer, and I think the fairies must have moved in, as this spring we discovered a ring of small purple flowers had grown around the house! We are off to Maine (where I am from), where there are lots of fairies waiting for us! Thank you again, Maura Murphy
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Hi! We were at the Sandy Point Discovery Center on this past sat, and we built fairy houses with you in the woods--- which were so much fun!! we have built a few of them around our house too! you took a few pictures of the kids and you said you were going to try to put them on your web site, i was just wondering if you have yet? when you do or if, let me know i would love to be able to see them!! thank you so very much for coming to the center and sharing your time and book!! we had a great time!!
the beane's (dylan- cierra- and skylar beane)
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Absolutely adore Kristen's Fairy House. Your stuff is so good. Please don't stop. Please keep going. Please do more of this quality wonderful stuff. Please continue this good work because I don't think anyone else is doing it as well as you people. We need your videos. We have had such enormous fun with KFH video and our granddaughters could hardly wait for that video to finish the first time they saw it, they wanted to begin immediately making fairy houses and they have done so non-stop ever since when there's an opportunity."
Mary Anne, from Minnetonka, MN
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We found your video at the library and have watched it several times each day. My backyard is now filled with fairy houses that my two daughters (age 3, 4) have created. My heart leaps with joy as I see their eyes and minds light up as they create these magical creations. I hope for more of your wonderful work! I am also glad to finally be able to order my own copy!
Sincerely, a very pleased mother, Stephanie, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Just a note to say how much we have thoroughly enjoyed the video Kristen's Fairy House. My son Travis and my wife and I have watched it over and over. Travis also shared the video with his Grandmother from Texas and now she has shared the experience of building fairy houses with her other grandsons in Tx. She still talks about fairy house today and always asks our son if he has built any lately. Every time we go camping or a walk in the woods we always build a fairy house out of what nature provides. Thanks again for a pleasant and entertaining experience. We are also looking forward to purchasing the new book Fairy Houses. P.S. When I locate the pictures of our latest fairy houses we have built I will forward them to you.
Leaves & Kisses, Mark, Karen & Travis
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A friend bought your video for her niece and they built fairy houses for a weekend 'thing to do'. I've been landscaping a five acre area around a one acres pond in an all 'natural environment' theme and got the idea to do 'hidden' fairy houses and such in the landscape. It was purely coincidental that my friend shared Kristen's Fairy House with me. I've known her forty years and did not know she was into fairy things. She loaned me her video, which totally changed my concept of fairy houses and what to do with the landscaping. I don't know how she found you, but she raved on your site. Let me know when the book is out.

Barbara
New Hampshire
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My grandchildren Emily and Gary and I built fairy houses this summer while they were visiting from Indonesia. We collected pine cones, bark and other items. We used an old nest that had been a in a bush in my front yard for years. We added shells we collected at the beach and left "food" for the fairies in the nest.
Cookie
Louisville, KY
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