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Old 10-24-2005, 05:34 PM
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Default What is Your Greatest Non-Card Discovery ?

Posted By: Max Weder

My "greatest" non-card discovery was picking up a book, Kevin Kerrane's Dollar Sign on the Muscle (c 1989, not vintage thus, but a great book). The gift inscription read something like:

"Dear Johnny, here's a wonderful book for Christmas. I know there's something in here I'm sure you'll enjoy, love Grampa".

Little Johnny was apparently a little light on literacy. When I opened the book, I found a crisp $10 bill in the middle, sitting there, unloved and unappreciated by little Johnny, who seemingly, along with the bookseller, had never opened the book completely.

When I showed the bookseller, he laughed and told me he should have taken more care, and that the money was mine as long as I bought the book, which I did for $6.

Max

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