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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4567243, member: 85693&quot;]It is good to hear others talk about these matters, and I thank you all for sharing.&nbsp; And thanks to robinjojo for getting the thread started.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I sometimes think the world is made up of two types of people - those who collect and those who do not collect.&nbsp; I am not saying this in a self-congratulatory way.&nbsp; There is, I think, based on my own experiences and feelings about it, a potential <i>pathology</i> of collecting - which is to say the <i>Hoarders</i> TV show makes me a bit uneasy sometimes.&nbsp; There but for the grace of God go me...and if you saw my desk you might think I&#039;d succumbed! </p><p><br /></p><p>Although I&#039;ve been a collector my whole life, I do not really understand why; and I am not sure I want to dig very deep to find out.&nbsp; &quot;Here there be monsters,&quot; as they printed on the old maps.</p><p><br /></p><p>But as coping mechanisms go, collecting certainly beats a lot of the alternatives.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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