David Bruce

The Funniest People in Relationships David Bruce

This book is one-half of my previous book "The Funniest People in Comedy and Relationships: 500 Anecdotes." It contains 250 anecdotes about relationships (broadly understood), including this one: As a child, Trina Schart Hyman, an illustrator of children's books, believed in fairies. So did her kid sister, Karleen. When Karleen started asking for a real fairy, Trina decided to give her one. She bought a celluloid doll, glued some of her mother's long red-gold hair to it, and painted big, blue eyes on it. She also glued the wings of a Monarch butterfly to the doll's shoulders. In addition, she started writing letters from the fairy and left them on Karleen's pillow. The first letter said, "My name is Kloraine, and I am a lost fairy. I am trying to find my way to your house." Karleen believed the letter and spoke in whispers the day she received it. She was also very happy to wake up one day and find Kloraine on her night table. Later, another lost fairy named Lacey joined the family, and the two girls and the two fairies had many wonderful adventures together. Long after Trina and Karleen stopped believing in fairies, Kloraine and Lacey stayed in the family. Each December, they appeared as ornaments on the family Christmas tree