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‘I was going to college and headed out the door to my car which was parked across the street. I was not thinking of anything in particular aside from going to class. To cross the road, I looked left, right and left again as usual and then it registered that I had seen a tree looking person peeking from around a small tree in my front yard and to my left. I was startled and looked back just in time to see the tree person sort of sneak across the street and down the road. The tree person had tree branch ‘hair’ and a slender brown/grey body. I can’t really be sure this was technically a fairy or really a dryad. I have seen fairies two other times (in the woods) and they have always kept their distance. I have seen a dryad one other time a few years later while living in Baltimore. I had a potted hibiscus tree which I had not been watering enough. The tree person came up next to me one morning while I was curling my hair and stared at me. I noticed it from the corner of my eye and screamed. It was startled too but I got the message and watered it right away. This tree person looked much like the other but smaller. Thanks for letting me share.’ ‘I described this in my story but they looked like tree people. Tree branch ‘hair’ and a slender grey-brown body.’ ‘I think it was just me, sometimes, although not consistently, I pick up on things. Especially when I am relaxed but focused.’ ‘Well, in my case, it could have been the spirit of the tree or my visualizing something going on that I could not really explain. It is hard to label so I guess this is the closest label that seems relevant.’ ‘[Fairies are] probably the interpretation of the human mind of the spirit of other living organisms.’ ‘Nature spirits or elementals.’