I used to misplace cards all the time, usually those recently purchased, because after examining them, I would put them back in the original mailer until I got around to digging out the set they belonged to. I recall doing that with a mint '54 Bowman Mays card, and then having a light bulb go on over my head about three weeks later while watching an old tv documentary about the Giants. I jumped up and ran to my den and began searching through piles of old mailers, but it was no where. I spent about a month turning stuff upside down looking for it, fearing it had been thrown out by mistake, but then finally opened a letter from the VA sitting on my desk and out fell the Mays card. All purchases since then have gone immediately into proper storage.
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