Frances was nine when she first saw the fairies. Nobody but Frances saw them, so her cousin Elsie painted paper fairies and took photographs of them 'dancing' around Frances to make the grown-ups stop teasing. The girls promised they would never tell that the photos weren't real. But how were they supposed to know that their photographs would fall into the hands of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? And who would have dreamed that the man believed ardently in fairies, and wanted very much to see one?
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Frances was nine when she first saw the fairies. Nobody but Frances saw them, so her cousin Elsie painted paper fairies and took photographs of them 'dancing' around Frances to make the grown-ups stop teasing. The girls promised they would never tell that the photos weren't real. But how were they supposed to know that their photographs would fall into the hands of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? And who would have dreamed that the man believed ardently in fairies, and wanted very much to see one?
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