I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.

My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened.

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.

Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.