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This innocent tot is inspecting a "fairy door" in Somerset woods in England. Here's the caption from Getty:
Over the past few years more than 100 fairy doors have appeared delighting local children and adults alike who come to see homes of the fairies and leave gifts and messages. However, the trustees of the wood have issued an appeal to fairy house builders to tone it down and not to screw any more doors directly to trees. They also say that flowers are getting trampled by visitors and that some older people who used to walk around the woods when they were untouched have complained.
As a trustee of the woods told the BBC, "We've got little doors everywhere. We're not anti-fairies but it's in danger of getting out of control." The fairies themselves have yet to comment.
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