NORFOLK, Va. – With the coronavirus lockdown and school out for the summer, 9-year-old Maya Gebler’s social world had shrunk to her immediate family and a few friends.
When her human pen pals stopped writing, she turned to the fairies who had taken up residence at a tree in her Virginia neighborhood.
And the fairies wrote back.“They care about you,” she said.” And they want to write to you.”Beneath a crape myrtle at the edge of a lawn in Norfolk lies a fairy village.