In the spring of 2023, Jeff Letendre of Montreal, Canada, came across an orphaned fawn whom he named Fairy. And it was just the beginning of an amazing real-life fairy tale that’s still unfolding today.
“She’s my little fairy from the forest,” Letendre, 45, told The Epoch Times. “It’s magical. You have no idea … being close to such a wild, magnificent animal, how magical it is. I’m very blessed.”
Letendre, who runs a tech business called Virtual Front Desk, says Fairy the deer is almost an adult now. She is a free spirit and comes and goes as she wants, but she still regularly visits him.
Jeff Letendre first met Fairy the deer over one and a half years ago. Courtesy of Jeff Letendre
Recalling their first meeting, Letendre says it began with tragedy. He was having a conversation on the phone with his friend. “I was outside, and all of a sudden, I saw this fawn coming out of the bush,” he said.
At first, Letendre was sure the fawn’s mother must be nearby. But after searching, he couldn’t find her and then remembered seeing a deer hit by a car on a nearby road.
It dawned on him that the fawn had lost its mother.