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Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea on April 7, 2005, installed by Jonathan B. Wright, a teacher of graphic design technologies. The next was installed outside of the Ann Arbor gift store Peaceable Kingdom and appeared on April 17, 2005. The third door was found on May 11, 2005, outside of
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Seyfried Jewelers on South Main St. As of July 2012, downtown Ann Arbor locksmith Vogel's has arranged a mass of keys to form the word "Fairy Door", hinting that there may be a new fairy door to come. As of 29 May 2014, the Ypsilanti neighborhood of Normal Park had 14 doors in resident yards.
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Flabfish fairies. Another door located deeper in the office has a portal to take employees directly to the Ford office in
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Sweetwaters door. One is a small, wooden building with a small coffee table inside. The other is a laboratory building the fairies built to help players from a local escape room track down an escaped artificial
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Generations Together and in Gordon Field are identical. They are made of rustic wood and their porches contain tiny bouquets of wheat on either side of the doors. Their porches are supported tree
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