'I want people to believe that they don't have to be a fairy to give a little bit of magic to someone else.'
Kelly Kenney was walking in her Los Angeles neighborhood one day when she came across a fairy garden. While staring at these tree trunk trinkets, she felt an alter ego emerging."My imagination just kind of took over and I just started thinking, 'Well, maybe if I left a note as a fairy, that would be really fun to do.'"The next night she did just that — she left a note for whoever built the garden. The next day, a 4-year-old girl named Eliana wrote back.
Eliana felt like the luckiest girl in the world. But what she wanted more than any present was to meet her new friend. And that's when Sapphire remembered that fairies can, on very rare occasion, become human sized. Which is how, one day, she appeared. "She turned around and saw me and the way that she looked at me, I'll never forget that," Kenney said."It was just really magical." Since CBS News first told their story in 2020, the magic has multiplied. Sapphire spread the word and other forest creatures reached out, widening Eliana's wonder. "I want people to believe that they don't have to be a fairy to give a little bit of magic to somebody else.