Hm...I can't really pinpoint precisely what it was. I do clearly recall hearing The Unicorn by The Irish Rovers on the radio as a child, and really loving the song. I couldn't get enough of it.

I think I had recently remembered some other Unicorn influence when I was a child, but I can't think of it right now. (My memory banks suck...)

Like SilverUnicorn, I too could not pinpoint it. I just remember really liking them as a kid as did many of the other little girls I knew. I had a pen pal for a little while and we would send letters on unicorn stationary. I also remember when I was about 8 someone got me into sticker collecting and some of my absolute favorites were unicorns. I remember in the fifth grade reading Madelin L'engal's A Wrinkle In Time. I remember going to carnivals as a kid and playing the darts at the baloons game. I almost always won the little glass pictures. I wound up getting a collection of about 30 of them mostly unicorns cause I didn't really like most of the others. I also remember that teddy bear collecting was a big thing when I was a kid and I've always prefered to not go with the majority and though unicorn collecting was popular it was nowhere near as popular as teddy bears. I realized pretty young that collecting what everybody else was had immediate increase in value but collecting what fewer people collected had lasting value because there would be fewer around later. I don't really collect unicorn stuff anymore, now I collect things that are Sun, Moon, & Stars. Finally, I also just really enjoyed the etherial, fantasy of unicorns.

Joy, while on the subject, this reminds me that I have a box of unicorn stuff including a bunch of the carnival glass's and a couple of books that I would like to give you next time we are up north or you make it down south. About 1/2 of the glass's are the older collectible ones where the decal is directly on the glass not a piece of cardboard behind glass. I will have to sort them out cause a few are broken and a few are not unicorns. Anyway, it may be awhile before we make it up north (we were hoping to make it up one weekend this season, but with gas prices... nough said), so let us know if you are comming down anytime soon.

Sometimes I buy stuffed animals-the small ones-and I was drawn to the unicorn stuffed animals. It is easier for me to relate to animals hhan humans sometimes.