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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2463091, member: 19463&quot;]I envy those of you with children who have interests similar to yours.&nbsp;&nbsp; I had hopes when my grandson showed an interest in ancient history but he preferred Pharonic Egypt and outgrew that phase after a few years without passing through Greece or Rome.&nbsp; My daughter wants my sub-10mm Greek silver because she thinks they are cute but the big stuff can be melted and cast into an urn for my ashes as far as she is concerned.&nbsp; My wife is a librarian and lives for fiction (which I never read).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My wife collected bells for years.&nbsp; She first was interested when she was in elementary school and went with her mother to a friend&#039;s house where there was a bell collection.&nbsp; To her surprise, when the lady died we got a call from her children asking if my wife would like the bells. They kept a half dozen to remember mom by and we got four big boxes of collectible bells including the ones that my wife remembered loving 30 years before.&nbsp; When you collect things for the love of it, you would rather give them to someone who would love them than to sell them for 10 cents on the dollar to a picker.&nbsp; That is something the investors among us will never understand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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