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