I'm glad you found him, Pete. If it were me, I'd have gone crazy looking for him.
Luckily, the cards I've lost haven't been anything that substantial. When I moved to Texas from Wisconsin, I apparently lost one of the boxes with some of my favorite cards. I had a pristine 1981 Topps Joe Montana, an '84 Topps Dan Marino, an '86 Topps Jerry Rice, a 1972 Topps in action Clemente, a '72 Topps in Action Hank Aaron that was autographed. Nothing real expensive, but they had a lot of sentimental value to me. The Montana one still irks me though, because years before this whole third party grading thing took off, that was a PSA 10 in the waiting. It was the cleanest football card I ever had. Perfect white borders, dead centered, sharp edges and corners.  Now that I'm collecting again, I'll have to replace it. I'm sure I'll grumble about it. 
Of course, that doesn't compare to the cards my grandmother threw out. "Oh, yeah", my dad always tells me, "I had Willie Mays, and Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron and Mickey Mantle".
Thanks, Grandma Ann 
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