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Anonymous Hi Darren!
Net54's preamble: Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real card addicts. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellow. Therefore, it is not surprising that our collecting careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could collect vintage cards like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his vintage collection is the great obsession of every abnormal collector. The persistance of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity.
We learned that we had to concede to our innermost selves that were vintage card addicts. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently maybe, has to smashed.
We vintage card addicts are men (and woman) who have lost the ability to control our addiction. We know that no real vintage card addict ever ever recovers control. All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals-usually brief-were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man that vintage card collectors of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period, we get worse, never better.
Just remember,
Easy Does It,
One Day at a Time,
and....
Keep Collecting!!!
From a "real" card addict,
"ErikV."