Thanks, O, for sharing this. If you asked me over a year ago, I'd have not taken this seriously until I had my own encounter... and it took me to the age of 45 to have this encounter.
After seeing the Fae in my bathroom, I had seen fast moving sparkly light pink lights.. that resemble sparklers moving about the ceiling of our livingroom and outside near the Fairy garden we have near our yard... It was flying over the nearby apple tree there.
Neither my mother or father saw it when I had and I'm not the type that sees things, and I am sceptical by nature as well. That is probably why it took me til 45 years to see a Fae.. and that was only because I had earlier asked God to reveal to me if they existed or not.
I put out chocolates and italian bread with butter for them now. My family thinks i'm nuts, but I could care less what they think.