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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sam Stone, post: 4225597, member: 110020&quot;]I certainly understand and am very sorry that happened to you. Hopefully you&#039;ve found a career path that is better than you ever dreamed of when you had that experience. I remember the first two, three, four or five times I started college I was usually in as bad a place financialy as I am now and I don&#039;t even want to think about about my first day in medical school. Ever. I&#039;m convinced every college campus has an unofficial person with an office down the long, dark hallway nobody ever wants to go down who&#039;s sole purpose in life is to teach students how to survive the most distasteful scenario they can think of. Maybe one of them followed you around playing a tape that said &quot;Coin collector, coin collector&quot; over and over. Bottom line, college is a scary time even if your parents are Bill and Melinda Gates. Thank you for sharing your concern, but I know if I don&#039;t Iinvest any more than comes in I can and do enjoy learning collecting. It&#039;s certainly a much better alternative to sitting in my chair and looking to see if I can find a new pattern in the paint on the wall. Obviously if I found&nbsp; a bank note signed by Julius Caesar I would be elated,and I would happily share the spoils with the guys and gals who have been holding my hand and helping me to understand the difference between a Roosevelt dime and an&nbsp; Eisenhower dollar. I can see where collecting offers more potential reward for folks who can afford to be patient, and I&#039;m somewhere in the middle. I definitely don&#039;t agree with some news articles I&#039;ve read that compares collecting to going to the race track and betting on the first horse with a name starting with the same letter yours does.</p><p><br /></p><p>I always talk too much, so let me stop here,wish you luck, and recommend a fresh start in collecting if you haven&#039;t already. If you stick with this forum, you will find equal parts compassion, empathy, concern, and altruism--all when you need it most. Best wishes, and thanks again for your story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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