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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;imrich, post: 2783943, member: 22331&quot;]Kurt, thanks for asking. If you&#039;d read some of my earlier posts 7-8 years ago, you would have learned that as the elder of 5 children, when my father became disabled/institutionalized at my age of 9 years, my mother medically disabled, I became the family &quot;Father&quot;/parent, without a home.</p><p><br /></p><p>67 years ago I attended a Catholic school, at age 9, across from a coin shop. As the family parent I negotiated with the Jewish coin shop owner in a multi-million resident metro. I&#039;d attempt to supply juvenile/adult labor for his and others businesses in exchange for housing, etc.. We and others had already lived in ghettos, so were accustomed to spartan existence.</p><p><br /></p><p>We moved to a 1 room empty garage/dwelling without the bare essentials, but it had a roof/walls for shelter with a located fuel oil space heater. A &quot;local&quot; gave me a Doberman as a companion/protector when delivering/collecting on my acquired paper routes. When needed, and as time allowed, I worked in the coin shop, stores, homes, Synagogues, supplying services/supplies as requested.</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned much, and was taught business acumen, as a quiet youth who generally wasn&#039;t seen, but listened attentively. As a creative taupe haired gentile youth who excelled in whatever, my &quot;services&quot; were desired and requested&#039; by shop owners who appreciated, and taught/acquired various services/products.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never joined an &quot;organization&quot;, but spent many hours learning techniques, buying/selling for my numismatic associates. Thus my involvement in numerous coin firms bankruptcy proceedings.</p><p><br /></p><p>From your stated understandings of practices, I&#039;m certain you&#039;d be appalled by techniques in the restoration/conservation processes utilized when converting encrusted salvage recovery product to &quot;mint state&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>My education in life is mostly practical, as I enjoy &quot;practicing&quot;/teaching, which may differ from yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d appreciate receiving a P.M. which&#039;d explain your accumulation of a seeming general knowledge dearth in communicative/technical skills. Your language, as mine, appears to differ from normalcy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t any apprehension to learning from you or others as stated in the idiom &quot;mouth of babes&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for your query/indulgence, which may evoke an understanding of our perceived differences.</p><p><br /></p><p>Respectfully, Rich[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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