I got this a message from my friend with the following photo in which it says: "
Новый год уже совсем близко... Пусть Новогодняя сказка станет явью, а все мечты исполнятся.
As I understand it says:
The new year is quite close, let the new year fairy tales become reality and all dreams come true.
My questions about it are two:
1) What's the pronunciation of явью? (Yavyu or Yivu? two different local people told me two different pronunciations)
2) Why does it use "a" instead of "и" (=and)?