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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SPP Ottawa, post: 1777231, member: 39508&quot;]I suspect my timeline possibly would echo a few others....</p><ul> <li>Started at age 12</li> <li>At age 16, got my first street motorcycle and noticed that girls liked motorcycles</li> <li>Stopped collecting at age 16, started spending spare time and money on motorcycles and girls.</li> <li>Undergraduate degree - beer became a major food group for me, motorcycle made the girls thing easier too...</li> <li>Graduate degree(s) - more beer, meeting my wife, building a career, selling my sport bike...</li> <li>1st permanent job - marriage, house and kids, buying a SUV for the family, and oh yeah, I started collecting coins again in 2005. This time, I had the income to afford the &quot;bright and shiny stuff&quot;. </li> <li>Discovered my passion for varieties. </li> <li>Found the academic in me not only liked coins, but writing papers and publishing about coins.</li> <li>Discovered my passion for errors.</li> <li>Now, kids are 10 and 7 years old, and for the first time in 20 years, bought a motorcycle.... spending more spare time on the bike, than with my coins....</li> <li>The bike is noisy, with wind and engine sounds, but with two kids at the edge of becoming teenagers - I love the peace and quiet it offers me!!!</li> <li>Coins.... what coins?? It is summertime and the open road is beckoning....</li> <li>(I lie of course, I am here and am still writing my column for the CN Journal, an RCNA publication).</li> </ul><p>Photo of my newest bright and shiny below...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]283751[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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