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

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Here's a reprint from the Collectors Newsletter published May 2002:

A Fathers Day Story Two stories this week. The first is a brief fathers day
story.  The second is from the owner of an antique mall.  For 52 years I have
saved every greeting card from my husband, sons and grandsons.  Last year I
surprised my husband with all the fathers day cards he has received from the
boys, and displayed them on Fathers day.  Three sons and four grandsons giving
him cards over the last 48 years brought back a lot of memories and a few
tears.....Anna Mae B

In 1992 I purchased a going antique mall, but decided to incorporate which took
 several weeks, and as a result, all the dealers would ask, as I was managing
the store "IS IT YOURS YET?" and my reply was "It ain't over till the fat lady
sings".
The ink was hardly dry when an elderly lady came to the store and asked if I
would be interested in purchasing some Bavarian soup dishes she had in a box
with a few other things.  With great astonishment I looked into the small box
and on top of these dishes was a 4 inch tall fat lady opera singer with book in
 hand, made of pottery and her mouth open wide as if to sing my song.  The
elderly lady ask if I could give her 75 dollars for all of the items and I
nearly shouted "Absolutely".  It was the best thing I ,could have ever found. 
I had it put in a glass case with the inscription the fat lady sang july 8th
1992, the day my incorporation was recorded and it is a very successful
business today , the inscription on the bottom reads ZOLLE' so thanks wherever
you are!.....  Dorothy

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