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Tinker Bell's Secret
Admirer
Tinker Bell didn't know it, but she had
an admirer. Terence was a fairy-dust-talent sparrow man, and he liked
Tinker Bell so much that one day he wrote a poem about her. But even
though he and Tink were friends, he was too shy to give her his poem.
For a long time it sat on his desk.
 Then one day, feeling brave, Terence put
the poem in an envelope and put the envelope in his pocket. Maybe,
he thought, I can leave it somewhere for Tink to find.
As a dust-talent sparrow man, it was
Terence's job to sprinkle a teacup of fairy dust over every fairy and
sparrow man in Pixie Hollow each day. That morning, as on every other
morning, he went to the mill to collect the dust. As he leaned over a
dried-pumpkin canister filled with fairy dust, the envelope containing
Tink's poem fell out of his pocket. It landed, unnoticed, in the
canister. Covered in magical dust, the envelope gave a slight twitch.
But Terence has already moved on, so he
didn't realize that he had lost the poem. And he certainly didn't see
the envelope ride into the air! It spun about in the canister, twirling
and dancing, as Terence slung the bag of fairy dust over his shoulder
and headed on his way.
Behind him, Tink's poem drifted out of
the canister. Then, gaining speed, it flew straight out the door of the
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