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AnonymousMike Campbell, You and I share practically the same bio. I too am a 52 year old mortgage banker, married to a wonderfull teacher for 28 years. I have 3 children, the youngest is a senior at the University of Alabama (but I always write War Eagle on his tuition checks). He will be attending graduate school seeking his MBA starting in the Spring, the middle is a first year 5th grade teacher. She graduated from Furman University. My oldest is an artiste, ie, National Merit Scholar/College dropout who followed Phish and String Cheese and moved to Boulder Colorado for 3 years and became a musician and recording engineer, most recently completing the 1 year guitar program at The Collective in New York City, on Daddy's dime. I, like my oldest son, am an artistic minded underachiever. I received my degree in English literature, spent a year in a creative writing MFA program and ended up in the unlikely field of banking. It is not my passion. I too misspent my youth in the rock and roll, surfing, marijuana counter culture. About as radical as I get these days is membership in the Democratic Party. As for collecting, I have always been a compulsive saver/sorter of almost anything. I collected 50s and 60s baseball cards as a youth, started saving complete Topps sets in albums in the early 80s and became a turn of the century card collector by inheritance in 1988 or 1989.