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Charlotte’s unicorns take flight

Believe it or not, there are unicorns flying high in front of IKEA Springvale.

On National Unicorn Day on 9 April, Charlotte, 6, hoist her unicorn flag design aloft into the whirling winds on Princes Highway.

Her family, friends and staff looked on, many of them dressed up in unicorn costume.

The unlikely scenario started with Charlotte’s letter of constructive criticism to IKEA’s CEO.

Charlotte was unimpressed with the “boring old” flags in front of the store.

She requested that they change them to her attached design featuring pastel colours and soaring unicorns.

To her delight, the store manager Julian wrote back.

“We think you are right, they are a bit boring.

“We actually really love unicorns too.”

And so, IKEA staged a flag-raising ceremony among a lot of unicorn activities at the store.

The unicorn flag will fly for the following two weeks.

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