July 11th, 2007

Fairy Tea Party

My six-year old daughter believes in fairies.

I think it might have started with that scene in Peter Pan when Tinkerbell is near death. Only the chant, “I do believe in fairies, I do, I do,” resuscitates her. Sometimes I hear Elena mumbling that chant as she draws fairies, always with long hair and double wings.

Elena constructs offerings for the tiny fairies that inhabit our backyard. She folds ivy leaves around peanut M&Ms and coins and reinforces them with clear tape. “The fairies are my best friends,” Elena said one day.

Stumbling, I said, “Aren’t I your best friend?”

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By Beth Touchette