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7. This Week's Stories and Requests for Help/Blast from the past

We try to post stories and comments from our readers each week.  Send your
story to newsletter@tias.com.

Here's a reprint of an interesting story from 2002:

Proof that collecting is genetic. This reader found that the collecting bug is
indeed something that can be passed on from generation to generation.  I know a
 lot of people collect postcards, but I think that this is a new one.  My mom
traveled a lot for work, so I started a collection of postcards from all of the
 places she traveled when I was a kid.  I also asked everyone I knew to pick
some up for me on their travels.  I have collected over 2,000 in my 30 years. 
About a month after my grandfather died in 1999 my grandmother gave me two big
metal boxes.  I opened them up to find some smaller WW II ammunition type boxes
 inside.  I thought that the boxes were great, but she said to keep looking. 
Inside those boxes was the collection that of postcards that my grandfather had
 been collecting since he was a kid!  The second big box was even better. 
Inside were more ammo boxes, this time, they were from WWI!  These boxes were
the collection that my Great Grandfather had started as a kid!  I never had any
 idea that the postcard thing was in the blood!......Gwen S.

If you have a story about an unusual collection, your best yard sale find or
how you started your collection, drop us a note.  We may publish it here.  Send
 your note to support@tias.com
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