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...Gadenne has been in the fairy business for "quite a lot of years," ever since she opened the area's first fairy shop, in Mooloolaba. There are two others within 50 km of here, she says: "We're the country fairy capital of Australia." But there's no ill feeling: "No one competes in fairies...
...Does Gadenne believe in them? "I believe you should keep your heart open," she says. "Dream, believe, create, succeed-I love that saying." She's followed it, too: after her marriage ended, she brought up four children on her own "and they've all turned out great." Now the shop keeps her young: "I love listening to what kids have to say. Some of them have such wonderful imaginations. It's a shame when they're told, 'Don't believe that, it's not real.' Children who don't have that bit of fantasy in their life-they...
...shop, kids can dress up as fairies and wizards, have their photo taken, and go home with a set of gauze wings or a wand. For birthday parties, she hosts "magical picnics" on the red-and-white concrete toadstools in the "fairy garden." Some of the children have gray hair. "When elderly people come in, I give them a fairy wish and their faces light up," Gadenne says. "None of us wants to grow...
When Ren? Boissevain is not turning motorists' heads in the bumpy-surfaced car he calls his rockmobile or guiding tourists through the cave beneath his shop, he can usually be found down some South American mine shaft in search of rare crystals...
...Then there's the matter of trying to sell stuff. For a while she worked in the surf shop, which seems like a good fit for a surfie chick. But Biles, 27, couldn't bear having to push people toward clothing that they didn't come to buy. She's happier now next door serving in the Perfect Break vegetarian caf?, where people ask her for a coffee and that's what she gives them...