When I first moved out of my parents house to move in with my future wife into a small apartment two towns over, I left all my cards at my parents house.
Not long after, a former "Friend" of the family, broke into my parents house and stole most of my cards, thinking he had hit a gold mine.
Knowing I was moving out of the house with my girlfriend, I had already sold most anything that was worth anything, setting up at local shows. He mostly got stacks of Craig Jefferies rookies and albums full of 70's and 80's stars, that wasn't worth much back then. Might have been something in there that might be worth something now, but not too much back then.
They caught him, but never recovered the cards. Got a little payday from my parents homeowners insurance at about a 1/3rd of the cards value of whatever I could remember was stolen...which wasn't very much, but at the time I was pretty ok with.
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