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steve f Thanks for the kind words Frank, I hope you and yours have a warm Holiday. When things get hostile here, at home, or on the job, I just try to think of our good people in the middle east and suddenly my life's a cakewalk again.
I rec'd several used books yourself and the others suggested. I won't open them until the 25th when they'll be new to me.
"Collectors often decried how money had ruined their hobby, making it hard for them to form meaningful friendships through their cards. Money, however, made the hobby not only profitable but also more serious, more instrumental, and therefore more manly. The same collectors who complained about greed often bragged in the same interview about the value of their cards. Yet money, in turn, made the hobby less akin to child's play and more like work: lonely, competitive, unfulfilling, and alienating." - Author John Bloom in A House of Cards (1997)