In all the best stories, the fairy godmother turns up and solves everything. In spite of waiting from the age of - I don't recall - 11,12? - she never appeared. I gathered from my friends that they didn't get visited by the magic lady either.

I am sure that if all the little boys got together and wrote to the President, he could do something with the Fairy Godmothers Union to sort out this terrible neglect. It would earn him a terrific amount of votes if he was still around when they got to be old enough to vote.